Re: New regex implementation

[Ulrich Drepper]

Ville Laurikari <address@hidden> writes:

> I am writing my master's thesis on the subject of efficient submatch
> addressing for regular expressions.  As a byproduct of the thesis,
> I have written a prototype of a POSIX.2 compatible regex matching
> library using the methods studied in my work.

Sorry for the late reply.

This sounds really interesting and we are still in desperate need of a
new implementation.  We have, though, an implementation which handles
multibyte character sets.  So any upcoming implementation will have to
have this, too.  Also, all the GNU extensions currently enabled (in
glibc) must be supported.  This excludes some of the Emacs features.

If you are willing to contribute the code I'd like to see the code at
some point and discuss further actions.

Thanks,

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