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List:       bash-bug
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] print regerror string on regcomp error
From:       Chet Ramey <chet.ramey () case ! edu>
Date:       2023-07-17 18:39:06
Message-ID: a5123d9a-d557-9e4a-305e-22199db07588 () case ! edu
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On 7/17/23 1:10 PM, Grisha Levit wrote:
> 
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2023, 12:09 Chet Ramey <chet.ramey@case.edu 
> <mailto:chet.ramey@case.edu>> wrote:
> 
>     I guess we'll see how much the text of regerror(3)
>     error messages varies across regexp implementations.
> 
> 
> Is that a concern? The GNU strings [1] are translated and even their 
> untranslated text does differ from that of the BSD ones [2].

Not particularly a concern -- it's mostly for the test suite. We have the
same problem with the error messages produced by strerror(3) and there are
existing warnings for those.

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