From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 13:08:29 GMT
Subject: Re: git diff looping?
Message-ID: <4A38EACD.3050602@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4A38D408.7000302@op5.se>


> The glibc implementation is quite large. Cutting the library-specific
> cruft it still sits at about 10k LOC.
> 
> Using PCRE is a no-go, as it uses perl-compatible regexes even for the
> posix-compatible API, as per pcreposix(3):

I have a PCRE fork that has POSIX semantics (except the braindead 
leftmost-longest *sub*expressions).  It weighs 8kLOC, you can find it in 
branch ssed of GNU sed's git repository.

Paolo