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Re: A patch for gnu-regex
On Fri, Mar 10, 2000 at 10:01:08AM +1100, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> I would like to see GDB-5 provide consistent behavour across all the
> random GNU/Linux distributions that are out there. I think this is
> consistent with other applications that rely on regexp - VI being a very
> very good example. I also want to be able to say, with some certainty,
> that a users regexp problem is attributable to GDB and _not_ random
> regexp of the day.
It seems that gdb is the only program you care on a GNU/Linux system.
You don't care if glibc nor other system programs work correctly or
not. As a long time Linux C library developer, I have received so
many bug reports derived from the system programs. I don't see
many Linux people go out to get their own replacements for the broken
functions in libc. I guess that is the one difference between Linux
and GNU. We are not writing replacements. We are working on the system
default.
>
> A GNU/Linux distributor is free to build a GDB that regexp from an
> installed glibc. Actually such a distributor is free to do what ever
> they like :-)
Are you saying as far as gdb is concerned, you have no interests
whatsoever in glibc nor helping glibc developers and GNU/Linux
distributors? If it is true, that is too bad.
H.J.