Re: [PATCH] regex: Pass the system regex if its only problem is 32-bit regoff_t

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 09/09/2010 05:04 PM, Eric Blake wrote:


Hmm - here's the current POSIX 2008 wording:

http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/basedefs/regex.h.html#tag_13_38


The <regex.h> header shall define the regoff_t type as a signed integer
type that can hold the largest value that can be stored in either a
ptrdiff_t type or a ssize_t type.

I know, but we have to choose between this and removing support for a 
whole class of regex features.

I'm choosing the lesser evil.

Paolo