On Thu, 18 Aug 2016 09:21:56 -0600 arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > Norihiro Tanaka <nori...@kcn.ne.jp> wrote: > > > The patch introduces not newline_anchor option of regex to dfa. grep is > > always newline_anchor, so newer codes is not used. I expect it is used > > by sed and gawk. > > > > 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. > > Can you update the comment to dfasyntax to explain the new fourth argument? > > How would gawk call dfasyntax? It's not clear to me what you've just > done. > > Thanks, > > Arnold
Hi Arnold, If rp->pat.newline_anchor is false in gawk, dfa has been avoided. dfa is useful by passing a value of rp->pat.newline_anchor to the fourth argument instead of the value, even if rp->pat.newline_anchor is false. Hi Jim, Where that is documented? Thanks, Norihiro
