Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > On 12/15/19 4:43 AM, arn...@skeeve.com wrote: > > On the assumption that setlocale is the only blocker, I would rather > > see an additional `char *locale_name' parameter added to dfa_syntax. > > Thanks, this is a good suggestion. Running with it, we can improve it further > by > putting this new flag into struct localeinfo (so no need for a new dfasyntax > parameter), and also I think I can initialize it without using setlocale (so > no > need to worry about setlocale's lack of thread-safety). I installed the > attached > patches and they work with 'grep'. This way, we shouldn't need to pull in any > more Gnulib code into Gawk. > > I plan to take a look at the more serious crashes soon.
I will manually apply these changes and test, but they look reasonable to me. I won't be able to merge from gnulib until the dfa crashes are dealt with, though. IMHO those are very high priority. Thanks, Arnold
