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bug#32194: [PATCH] Use Gnulib regex for lib-src


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: bug#32194: [PATCH] Use Gnulib regex for lib-src
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:59:48 -0700
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On 07/31/2018 05:29 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
Is it justified to drop the DEBUG code?  Couldn't it still be useful if
we want to debug regex engine (and we're not assuming it has/will always
have 0 bugs, right)?

Yes, because the DEBUG code doesn't work now, in master, and hasn't worked for years. Perhaps someday someone will want to debug the Emacs regex engine; when they do, they will likely want debugging scaffolding oriented to whatever problem they're facing, instead of what's in Emacs now.

Although the glibc/gnulib regex code has debugging that does work, it is quite different (that is, it's already gone through the process mentioned above).






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