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- From: karl@claude.cs.umb.edu (Karl Berry)
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- Subject: [gnu.utils.bug] regex 0.10 released
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- Date: 11 Sep 1992 10:42:32 GMT
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- Archive-name: auto/gnu.utils.bug/regex-0-10-released
-
- I've released version 0.10 of the GNU regular expression code.
- You can get it by anonymous ftp from
- prep.ai.mit.edu [18.71.0.38]:pub/gnu/regex-0.10.tar.Z
-
- And soon from these archive sites around the world (please try them
- before prep):
-
- Japan: ftp.cs.titech.ac.jp, utsun.s.u-tokyo.ac.jp:ftpsync/prep
- Australia: archie.au:gnu
- Europe: ftp.informatik.tu-muenchen.de, src.doc.ic.ac.uk:gnu,
- ftp.funet.fi, nic.funet.fi:pub/gnu, ugle.unit.no, isy.liu.se,
- ftp.stacken.kth.se, sunic.sunet.se, ftp.win.tue.nl,
- ftp.diku.dk, ftp.eunet.ch, ftp.funet.fi, archive.eu.net
- United States: wuarchive.wustl.edu ftp.cs.widener.edu,
- uxc.cso.uiuc.edu, col.hp.com, gatekeeper.dec.com:pub/GNU,
- ftp.uu.net:packages/gnu
-
- For information on how to order GNU software on tape, check
- the file pub/gnu/etc/DISTRIB on prep.ai.mit.edu
- or email a request to: gnu@prep.ai.mit.edu
-
- Important note:
-
- I made one upward-incompatible change, which affects many of the
- programs that use regex: the global variable `obscure_syntax' is now
- named `re_syntax_options'. (This was the only public identifier that
- did not start with `re_' or `reg'.) If you like, you can use the
- function re_set_syntax instead of assigning directly to this variable.
-
- Here is a summary of the other changes:
-
- * `re_comp's return type is no longer `const', for compatibility with BSD.
-
- * POSIX syntaxes now include as much functionality as possible
- (consistent with the standard).
-
- * Compilation conditionals normalized to what the rest of GNU is
- migrating towards these days.
-
- * Bug fixes involving:
- - Ranges with characters between 0x80 and 0xff, e.g., [\001-\377].
- - `re_compile_fastmap' and the sequence `.*\n'.
- - Intervals with exact counts, e.g., a{5}.
-
- * Changed distribution to use a standard Makefile, install the info
- files, use a configure script, etc.
-
- karl@cs.umb.edu
-
-