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#16481
dfa.c and Rational Range Interpretation
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Reported by: Aharon Robbins <arnold <at> skeeve.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 13:41:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Done: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.
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Message #56 received at 16481 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):
> If you use --with-included-regex, the patch is a no-op. Thus it can be
> reverted.
Whether or not you use the included regex, there are still problems, if not
outright bugs, in that code that I pointed out in my initial mail several
weeks ago.
> > Personally, I think grep should always use the included regex so that
> > then the behavior is consistent across all platforms everywhere; this
> > is why gawk always uses its own regex.
>
> I wouldn't be surprised if GNU distros patch gawk's regex away to get
> consistency with grep, sed, etc.
Their loss. To date I know of no distro that does this. And the world is
bigger than just GNU syystems.
We've gone around on this before and we continue to disagree. I have
nothing else to add to this discussion.
Arnold
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