our own, tiny regex support?

[Bernhard Fischer]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2008 at 05:59:58PM -0400, Poly-p man wrote:
>uclibc's regexp code is 53k by itself.

There are 2 regexp in uClibc, which one are you talking about?
>
>Since things like expr, awk, etc. need it, I was wondering if it was
>even feasible to consider writing our own miniature,
>just-what-we-need-and-no-more regexp code, possibly implementing that as
>an option or whatever. 
>
>I could do some work on this, but I'd like some input from the mailing
>list first.

I don't think this makes sense, improve uClibc instead, i'd say.