Subject: Re: bug#17072: closed (Re: bug#17072: dfa change apparently needed on Irix)

From: [email-masked]
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 2014 14:27:14 -0600

Hello Paul.

> Your bug report
>
> #17072: dfa change apparently needed on Irix
>
> which was filed against the grep package, has been closed.
>
> The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
> If you require more details, please reply to [email-masked].

Moving dfa.h back to where it was is likely to break OpenVMS. See
this in the gawk ChangeLog:

2013-01-31         Arnold D. Robbins     <[email-masked]>

	* dfa.c: Include "dfa.h" which includes regex.h after limits.h
	so that RE_DUP_MAX gets the correct value. Especially needed on
	OpenVMS. Thanks to Anders Wallin.

In general, I don't do stuff like that without a reason, and the reason
can usually be found in the ChangeLogs if you look (or check with me).

I would prefer to have dfa.h after the standard includes in dfa.c.
The current code works on Irix and other systems as is...

Thanks though.

Arnold