5 * 'A fair jaw-cracker dwarf-language must be.' --Samwise Gamgee
7 * [p.285 of _The Lord of the Rings_, II/iii: "The Ring Goes South"]
10 /* This file contains functions for compiling a regular expression. See
11 * also regexec.c which funnily enough, contains functions for executing
12 * a regular expression.
14 * This file is also copied at build time to ext/re/re_comp.c, where
15 * it's built with -DPERL_EXT_RE_BUILD -DPERL_EXT_RE_DEBUG -DPERL_EXT.
16 * This causes the main functions to be compiled under new names and with
17 * debugging support added, which makes "use re 'debug'" work.
20 /* NOTE: this is derived from Henry Spencer's regexp code, and should not
21 * confused with the original package (see point 3 below). Thanks, Henry!
24 /* Additional note: this code is very heavily munged from Henry's version
25 * in places. In some spots I've traded clarity for efficiency, so don't
26 * blame Henry for some of the lack of readability.
29 /* The names of the functions have been changed from regcomp and
30 * regexec to pregcomp and pregexec in order to avoid conflicts
31 * with the POSIX routines of the same names.
34 #ifdef PERL_EXT_RE_BUILD