bug#24262: [PATCH 2/2] dfa: support not newline_anchor of regex

[Norihiro Tanaka]

On Fri, 2 Sep 2016 15:35:22 -0700
Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:

> Norihiro Tanaka wrote:
> > However, the patch adds an argument to dfasyntax().   To synchronize
> > between grep and dfa easily, I expect it is applied before dfa is moved
> > to gnulib.
> 
> Since we're already changing the DFA API already, how about if we have a 
> flags arg that combines all these little Boolean arguments? That will make 
> future changes less disruptive. Although the existing code supports any 
> newline terminator, in practice only '\0' and '\n' are useful, so it's really 
> just a boolean.
> 
> Most of the changes in your proposed patch are subsumed by the changes for 
> multithreading, so the patch can be simplified now. I installed the attached, 
> and plan to follow up shortly about the corresponding Gawk changes that I'll 
> propose.

Thanks for reviewing.  You say we can simplified by the changes for
multithreading, but two changes in the patch are needed.

0001-dfa-additional-change-new-option-for-anchored-search.patch
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