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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 04:03:51 +0100
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@work.bitmover.com>,
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> [lm@bitmover.com]
> 
> I can't offer any immediate help with this but I want the same thing.  At
> some point, we're planning on funding some extensions into GCC or whatever
> reasonable C compiler is around:
> 
>     - associative arrays as a builtin type
>     - regular expressions
>     - tk bindings built in

Is it April 1st already?

I can't see why this should be a language extension other than you want
to make a real mess out of it.

> and then we'll port BK to that compiler.  It's likely to be GCC because we
> want to support all the different architectures but if a kernel sponsered
> cc shows up we'll happily throw money at that.

Ever heard of glib?
#include <glib.h> and be done with it.

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