Author: ph10 Date: To: Ze'ev Atlas CC: pcre-dev@exim.org, Zoltán Herczeg Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] New header file location
On Mon, 2 Dec 2019, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
> When I started, Philip had assured me that pcre2_jit_compile.c is
> indeed in src but does nothing in my context. He had also assired me
> that most of the rest of jit related code would be in src/sljit. I do
> not understand why the change of heart. These headers are not needed
> when we compile for non-jit. Their natural place is sljit.
Not really; sljit contains code that is used in many projects, not just
PCRE2, so it would be wrong to put PCRE2-specific code in there. In
effect, sljit is a "project" in its own right. For example, you will see
exactly the same files in the sljit directory in PCRE1, though the
PCRE-specific files are different.
I suppose we could have put all the files whose names begin with
pcre2_jit into yet another directory, but I think it is probably too late
to change now. Sorry about that.
