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carenas
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| There are accompanying utility functions for converting glob patterns and POSIX BRE/ERE patterns to PCRE2 regular expressions; and also for performing high-level regular expression operations such as search-and-replace with a powerful replacement string syntax. | ||
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| As well as the PCRE2 API, the library also offers a POSIX-compatible `<regex.h>` header and `regexec()` function. However, this does not provide the ability to pass PCRE2 flags, so we recommend users consume the PCRE2 API if possible. |
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pcre2posix.h is actually no longer "POSIX" compatible, because it only supports "int" sized offsets
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Well yes, but even glibc has the same problem in their regex.h (_REGEX_LARGE_OFFSETS is not POSIX compliant). The POSIX guys just randomly changed it...
Whenever they fix it so that snprintf returns a size_t, we can worry about regoff_t. There's a vast number of standard C and POSIX C interfaces that incorrectly specify int, and the regex functions are the least of everyone's worries.
We should just ignore the problem, since we didn't start it.
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