libibery regex

[David O'Brien]

On Tue, Jul 10, 2001 at 08:22:42PM -0400, DJ Delorie wrote:
> To all: If you want GNU regex (from glibc, and I will strive to keep
> it in sync), just include "xregex.h" in your source and libiberty will
> provide you with it.  No need to do anything special, as xregex
> #defines all the usual names (regcmp, etc) to "x" names (xregcmp,
> etc).

I don't quite understand the need of this.  What is wrong with using
native regex libs (if they exist).  This makes it sound like this version
would always be used -- adding to code bloat.

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-- David  (obrien@FreeBSD.org)