Re: isblank

2020-01-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 1/29/20 12:27 PM, Bruno Haible wrote: This is assumption is justified by the fact that gnulib's test-isblank.c succeeds on all platforms (as far as I know). Thanks, the dfa.c usage is for single-byte locales only, so it can make the same assumption. I installed the attached. >From b58d0cb8f

Re: isblank

2020-01-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Paul Eggert wrote: > * Gawk dfa.c doesn't use isblank, but instead defines its own is_blank > that is hard-coded to the C locale. Isn't [[:blank:]] supposed to be > locale-dependent? '[[:blank:]]', when applied to wide characters, is surely locale and OS dependent, yes. But... > Or are you assu

Re: dfa.c no longer usable if no 64-bit support

2020-01-29 Thread Paul Eggert
On 1/29/20 7:34 AM, Bruno Haible wrote: I would say that it's not worth the effort - except for the person(s) who care a lot about Vax/VMS. Normally I'd agree, but if Arnold cares about VAX/VMS and if we want Gnulib dfa.c to match Gawk dfa.c, then in this particular case it makes some sense t

Re: dfa.c no longer usable if no 64-bit support

2020-01-29 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Arnold, > The gentleman who maintains the gawk port for VMS reports that he > can get dfa.c to compile on Vax/VMS, but that he gets failues when > trying to use it to compile regular expressions. > > The Vax/VMS C compiler does not support 64 bit integers at all > (unlike GCC on 32-bit x86, fo

dfa.c no longer usable if no 64-bit support

2020-01-29 Thread arnold
Hi. The gentleman who maintains the gawk port for VMS reports that he can get dfa.c to compile on Vax/VMS, but that he gets failues when trying to use it to compile regular expressions. The Vax/VMS C compiler does not support 64 bit integers at all (unlike GCC on 32-bit x86, for example). This m