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From: Paolo Bonzini <paolo.bonzini@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: git diff looping?
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> The glibc implementation is quite large. Cutting the library-specific
> cruft it still sits at about 10k LOC.
> 
> Using PCRE is a no-go, as it uses perl-compatible regexes even for the
> posix-compatible API, as per pcreposix(3):

I have a PCRE fork that has POSIX semantics (except the braindead 
leftmost-longest *sub*expressions).  It weighs 8kLOC, you can find it in 
branch ssed of GNU sed's git repository.

Paolo