Re: [PATCH v2 05/10] Make gnulib's regcomp not abort()

[Paul Eggert]

On 12/1/21 13:02, Robbie Harwood wrote:
> @@ -1099,7 +1099,7 @@ optimize_utf8 (re_dfa_t *dfa)
>         }
>         break;
>         default:
> -       abort ();
> +       break;
>         }

Likewise, it's not clear why this change is needed. The 'abort' should 
not be reachable.

Is the intent to make the code a bit smaller by avoding calls to 'abort'?