[libstdc++/71500] make back reference work with icase

Jonathan Wakely jwakely@redhat.com
Fri Sep 8 15:52:00 GMT 2017


On 04/09/17 03:31 -0700, Tim Shen via libstdc++ wrote:
>This fixes the follow-up comments in 71500.
>
>Back-reference matching is different from other matching, as the
>content the back-reference refers to is at "run-time", aka during
>regex_match(), not regex() compilation.
>
>For compilation we do have an abstraction layer to catch all
>comparison customizations, namely _M_translator in regex_compiler.h.
>Until this patch, we don't have an abstraction for "run-time"
>matching. I believe that back-reference is the only place that needs
>run-time matching, so I just build a _Backref_matcher in
>regex_executot.tcc.

Looks like a nice solution. OK for trunk, thanks.

I think this looks safe to backport too, but let's leave it on trunk
for a while first.




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