New implementation of re module

[Wolfgang Rohdewald]

On Thursday 30 July 2009, MRAB wrote:
> There are other lines which are similar, eg line 1487. Do they all
> give the same/similar error with your compiler?

yes. The full output with gcc-4.3:


notebook:~/kmj/src$ LANG=C python setup.py  build
running build
running build_py
running build_ext
building '_regex' extension
gcc -pthread -fno-strict-aliasing -DNDEBUG -g -fwrapv -O2 -Wall -
Wstrict-prototypes -fPIC -I/usr/include/python2.6 -c _regex.c -o 
build/temp.linux-i686-2.6/_regex.o
_regex.c: In function 'bmatch_context':
_regex.c:1462: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1470: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1478: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1487: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1593: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1606: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1616: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1625: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1634: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1643: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:2036: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:2047: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:2059: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:2070: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:2316: error: lvalue required as increment operand
In file included from _regex.c:2431:
_regex.c: In function 'umatch_context':
_regex.c:1462: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1470: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1478: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1487: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1593: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1606: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1616: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1625: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:1634: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:1643: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:2036: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:2047: error: lvalue required as increment operand
_regex.c:2059: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:2070: error: lvalue required as decrement operand
_regex.c:2316: error: lvalue required as increment operand
error: command 'gcc' failed with exit status 1

-- 
Wolfgang