Yitzchak Scott-Thoennes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 07:55:02PM +0000, Dave Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 11:07:07AM +0000, Steve Hay wrote: >> > Note that ext/re/re_comp.c is copied from regcomp.c >> >> Does anyone know why this is done? It basically recompiles the core regex >> funtions under new names, and allows them to be called instead of the >> standard ones. > >For use re "debug", I've always assumed it needed to be compiled >specially.
IIRC it is compiled with different #defines in effect.
