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| author | Dave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com> | 2004-11-06 11:59:16 +0000 |
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| committer | Dave Mitchell <davem@fdisolutions.com> | 2004-11-06 11:59:16 +0000 |
| commit | e4a054ea0a8cd1ea68a25b95ec3055e51df2d6d4 (patch) | |
| tree | b57f1c5ff1b4411a2e10cc2217a3f525b0d55c2d /regcomp.c | |
| parent | 5e251bf1fe0e5e66987f1eeb75b275092a7de496 (diff) | |
| download | perl-e4a054ea0a8cd1ea68a25b95ec3055e51df2d6d4.tar.gz | |
document regcomp.c/regexec.c's dual life under ext/re/
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@23482
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@@ -8,6 +8,11 @@ /* This file contains functions for compiling a regular expression. See * also regexec.c which funnily enough, contains functions for executing * a regular expression. + * + * This file is also copied at build time to ext/re/re_comp.c, where + * it's built with -DPERL_EXT_RE_BUILD -DPERL_EXT_RE_DEBUG -DPERL_EXT. + * This causes the main functions to be compiled under new names and with + * debugging support added, which makes "use re 'debug'" work. */ /* NOTE: this is derived from Henry Spencer's regexp code, and should not |