https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1830
--- Comment #22 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> ---
(In reply to Petr Pisar from comment #21)
> My patch, that is built on top of the forthcoming 10.33, turns the
> non-prefixed _declarations_ into macros. It keeps the non-prefixed
> definitions.
My apologies again for not fully understanding what your patch does and to
which code it applies. Thank you for taking the time to explain it in detail.
But consider this: A user knows about this issue and writes a program that
calls pcre2_regcomp(). Unfortunately, the inclusion of pcre2posix.h will turn
this into pcre2_pcre2_regcomp() unless, as your patch has done, there is an
#undef. OK, perhaps nobody has done this yet, since pcre2_regcomp isn't yet
released - but there is the Debian patch previously mentioned, so people have
already been playing around with this.
> If you feel uncomfortable with applying my patches, fine. I just want to
> point that your 10.33 code as it is now does not provide a complete fix. But
> you probably know that because 10.33 also documents that an application must
> be changed to utilize the new prefixed functions.
I *am* uncomfortable, because it seems to me to be the kind of change that will
trip up somebody. Perhaps I'm too paranoid! (However, I regret that we didn't
think about this when PCRE2 was being developed.)
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