Re: __builtin_expect used in regex

[Paul Eggert]

Bruno Haible wrote:
> In gnulib, the module 'regex' depends
> on the module 'builtin-expect' (with the appropriate condition), and this
> latter module guarantees that __builtin_expect is defined also on non-GCC
> compilers.

All true. However, __builtin_expect is being phased out in glibc and I'd like to 
take this opportunity to phase it out in the regex code too. I'll look into 
doing that.