Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 4/24/22 06:21, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > I plan to add a test to gawk; perhaps grep would benefit from one as well? > > That'd need more than just a test, as we'd need to also modify regex.m4 > to arrange to replace any system regex that has this incompatibility > with gnulib regex. And we'd need to document the extension since we > shouldn't test undocumented features. Although such work could be done, > I expect it'd be a more productive use of our limited time to get this > extension into glibc first. I'll add that to my (long) list of things to do.
OK - I agree that getting this into glibc is higher priority. Thanks, Arnold
