On 03/16/2012 02:50 PM, Jim Meyering wrote: > the TABs (maybe required in glibc?)
Yes, that's right. Currently I'm having problems getting mktime fixes back into glibc, and one of the issues is that we expanded tabs to spaces. What a hassle. > I consider grep's choice of when to use regex vs. DFA to be an > internal implementation detail, and as such think that its choice > should not have a significant effect on the output, other than > a presumed performance improvement when using the DFA matcher. I suppose we could fix dfa.c to use regex's diagnostics -- they're accessible I expect. This'd be another patch, though.