Re: regexp reimplementation

[Bob Ham]

On Wed, 2001-10-10 at 17:57, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Bob Ham <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I'm doing a CS degree and as my final year project I've chosen to take
> > up the task in the PROJECTS file of reimplmenting the regex stuff.
> 
> There are already some other people doing this.  This doesn't mean
> it's unnecessary since I wouldn't bet to get results in the end but it
> might prove not necessary.

It's still a decent CS student project; good chance stretch programming
fingers and actually see the theory we've been learning in practise.

> > However, it'd probably be a good idea to subscribe to the development
> > list
> 
> That's not necessary.  Just read the GNU coding standard manual and
> document all the code very well.

I'll assume, then, that I can address questions to address@hidden,
one of which I have now.  I've been looking over the existing code and
it's obvious the main problem is the large number of '#ifdef WCHAR's. 
It seems some extra absraction and whatnot is needed, but is this the
only problem with the code?  Are there any other major problems with
the implementation as it is?

Many thanks,

Bob Ham