Re: regex.c simplification

[Paul Eggert]

On 07/21/2018 12:17 AM, Paul Eggert wrote:
> > 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. 

I tested it a bit, simplified the regex code on the Emacs side, and sent 
a new set of patches here:

https://bugs.gnu.org/32194#11

This eliminates about 2500 lines of Emacs C source code, yeay! More 
improvement could be done, but it is getting time to merge in what I've got.