only be included in your apps if you use regular expressions.
config UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX_OLD
- bool "Use the older (stable) Regular Expression Support"
+ bool "Use the older (stable) regular expression code"
depends on UCLIBC_HAS_REGEX
default y
help
- POSIX regular expression code is really big -- 27k all by itself.
- If you don't use regular expressions, turn this off and save space.
- Of course, if you only staticly link, leave this on, since it will
- only be included in your apps if you use regular expressions.
+ There are two versions of regex. The older (stable) version has
+ been in uClibc for quite a long time but hasn't seen too many
+ updates. It also has some known issues when dealing with uncommon
+ corner cases and multibyte/unicode strings. However, it is quite
+ a bit smaller than the newer version.
+
+ If the older version has worked for you and you don't need unicode
+ support, then stick with the old version (and say Y here).
+ Otherwise, you should use the new version (and say N here).
config UCLIBC_HAS_WORDEXP
bool "Support the wordexp() interface"