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| -rw-r--r-- | lib/regex.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/regex.h b/lib/regex.h index c06a062c4..22384df1f 100644 --- a/lib/regex.h +++ b/lib/regex.h @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ /* Definitions for data structures and routines for the regular expression library. - Copyright (C) 1985,1989-93,1995-98,2000,2001,2002,2003,2005 + Copyright (C) 1985,1989-93,1995-98,2000,2001,2002,2003,2005,2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This file is part of the GNU C Library. @@ -53,11 +53,13 @@ extern "C" { /* The type of the offset of a byte within a string. For historical reasons POSIX 1003.1-2004 requires that regoff_t be - at least as wide as off_t. This is a bit odd (and many common - POSIX platforms set it to the more-sensible ssize_t) but we might - as well conform. We don't know of any hosts where ssize_t is wider - than off_t, so off_t is safe. */ -typedef off_t regoff_t; + at least as wide as off_t. However, many common POSIX platforms set + regoff_t to the more-sensible ssize_t and the Open Group has + signalled its intention to change the requirement to be that + regoff_t be at least as wide as ptrdiff_t and ssize_t; see XBD ERN + 60 (2005-08-25). We don't know of any hosts where ssize_t or + ptrdiff_t is wider than long int, so long int is safe. */ +typedef long int regoff_t; /* The type of nonnegative object indexes. Traditionally, GNU regex uses 'int' for these. Code that uses __re_idx_t should work |