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[PATCH] Use Gnulib regex for lib-src

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: 32194 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Subject: bug#32194: [PATCH] Use Gnulib regex for lib-src
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 21:10:18 -0400

Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> writes:

> On 07/31/2018 05:29 PM, Noam Postavsky wrote:
>> Is it justified to drop the DEBUG code?  Couldn't it still be useful if
>> we want to debug regex engine (and we're not assuming it has/will always
>> have 0 bugs, right)?
>
> Yes, because the DEBUG code doesn't work now, in master, and hasn't
> worked for years. Perhaps someday someone will want to debug the Emacs
> regex engine; when they do, they will likely want debugging
> scaffolding oriented to whatever problem they're facing, instead of
> what's in Emacs now.

Hmm, I did use it just last year I think, to look at some deep
backtracing regexps.  It printed some stuff, though it's possible it
didn't print everything correctly; I was more interested in the amount
of printing than the precise details of the regexp engine state.

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