Subject: Re: git diff looping?

From: Paolo Bonzini <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:08:29 +0200

> The glibc implementation is quite large. Cutting the library-specific
> cruft it still sits at about 10k LOC.
> 
> Using PCRE is a no-go, as it uses perl-compatible regexes even for the
> posix-compatible API, as per pcreposix(3):

I have a PCRE fork that has POSIX semantics (except the braindead 
leftmost-longest *sub*expressions).  It weighs 8kLOC, you can find it in 
branch ssed of GNU sed's git repository.

Paolo