Hi! On Fri, Apr 21, 2023 at 01:24:16AM +0200, Alejandro Colomar wrote: > On 4/20/23 21:36, наб wrote: > > diff --git a/man3/regex.3 b/man3/regex.3 > > index bedb97e87..47fe661d2 100644 > > --- a/man3/regex.3 > > +++ b/man3/regex.3 > > @@ -105,12 +105,10 @@ .SS Compilation > > .SS Matching > > .BR regexec () > > is used to match a null-terminated string > > -against the precompiled pattern buffer, > > -.IR preg . > > -.I nmatch > > -and > > -.I pmatch > > -are used to provide information regarding the location of any matches. > > +against the compiled pattern buffer in > > +.IR *preg , > > +which must have been initialised with > > +.BR regexec (). > This patch removes the nmatch and pmatch info before presumably we add > it in a subsequent patch. It doesn't and we don't ‒ the documentation for nmatch and pmatch never leaves Match offsets. This patch just kills an extraneous, glib, and inaccurate description in Matching. There's another glib description not ten lines above in REG_NOSUB. You don't need to keep the third one. Best,
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