glibc/misc/regexp.c
Zack Weinberg 2ec11c2b6e Deprecate the use of regexp.h
<regexp.h> (not to be confused with <regex.h>) is an obsolete and
frankly horrible regular expression-matching API.  It was part of SVID
but was withdrawn in Issue 5 (for reference, we're on Issue 7 now).
It doesn't do anything you can't do with <regex.h>, and using it
involves defining a bunch of macros before including the header.
Moreover, the code in regexp.h that uses those macros has been buggy
since its creation (in 1996) and no one has noticed, which indicates
to me that there are no users.  (Specifically, RETURN() is used in a
whole bunch of cases where it should have been ERROR().)

The header is given a warning and marked deprecated for 2.22.

See:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-07/msg00862.html and
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-07/msg00871.html.
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/* Define function and variables for the obsolete <regexp.h> interface.
Copyright (C) 1996-2015 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This file is part of the GNU C Library.
Contributed by Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>, 1996.
The GNU C Library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2.1 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU C Library is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
Lesser General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public
License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
<http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
/* We don't include regexp.h here because of the macros it requires, and
because it now contains an unconditional #warning. */
#include <regex.h>
/* Define the variables used for the interface. */
char *loc1;
char *loc2;
/* Although we do not support the use we define this variable as well. */
char *locs;
/* Find the next match in STRING. The compiled regular expression is
found in the buffer starting at EXPBUF. `loc1' will return the
first character matched and `loc2' points to the next unmatched
character. */
int
__step (const char *string, const char *expbuf)
{
regmatch_t match; /* We only need info about the full match. */
expbuf += __alignof (regex_t *);
expbuf -= (expbuf - ((const char *) 0)) % __alignof__ (regex_t *);
if (__regexec ((const regex_t *) expbuf, string, 1, &match, REG_NOTEOL)
== REG_NOMATCH)
return 0;
loc1 = (char *) string + match.rm_so;
loc2 = (char *) string + match.rm_eo;
return 1;
}
weak_alias (__step, step)
/* Match the beginning of STRING with the compiled regular expression
in EXPBUF. If the match is successful `loc2' will contain the
position of the first unmatched character. */
int
__advance (const char *string, const char *expbuf)
{
regmatch_t match; /* We only need info about the full match. */
expbuf += __alignof__ (regex_t *);
expbuf -= (expbuf - ((const char *) 0)) % __alignof__ (regex_t *);
if (__regexec ((const regex_t *) expbuf, string, 1, &match, REG_NOTEOL)
== REG_NOMATCH
/* We have to check whether the check is at the beginning of the
buffer. */
|| match.rm_so != 0)
return 0;
loc2 = (char *) string + match.rm_eo;
return 1;
}
weak_alias (__advance, advance)