Re: regex.c simplification

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> > * Perhaps 'etags' users are using GNU extensions in their regular
> > expressions, and if we switch to the libc API their usage will break.
>
> We could recommend such users to install GNU regexp, which AFAIK
> exposes the Posix API as well.

I assume you mean GNU regex. That project is long dead, and has been superseded 
by Gnulib. I would not recommend it for Emacs usage. See:

https://www.gnu.org/software/regex/

> There's still the alternative which I asked about a couple of days
> ago: use the Gnulib regexp without the additional code pulled in by
> mbrtowc, I hope that's a viable option.

Yes, I've built that and am testing it. I plan to report back soon.