Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 17:26:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman <wollman@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: freebsd-standards@freebsd.org Subject: Re: standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs) Message-ID: <200410252126.i9PLQLNi072656@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> In-Reply-To: <xzpd5z6xzqn.fsf@dwp.des.no> References: <200410132000.i9DK0o3O052401@freefall.freebsd.org> <20041013201820.GA26102@nagual.pp.ru> <20041014092108.GA28831@cat.robbins.dropbear.id.au> <xzpd5z6xzqn.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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<<On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:19:12 +0200, des@des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) said: > Is the libc regex code POSIX-compliant and locale-aware? Nearly impossible to prove since nobody is quite sure what the POSIX specification for regexps actually means. Perhaps the right way to ask that question is: Could you formulate an argument that makes the wording in POSIX agree with what the libc regex code does? -GAWollman
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