Deprecate the use of regexp.h

<regexp.h> (not to be confused with <regex.h>) is an obsolete and
frankly horrible regular expression-matching API.  It was part of SVID
but was withdrawn in Issue 5 (for reference, we're on Issue 7 now).
It doesn't do anything you can't do with <regex.h>, and using it
involves defining a bunch of macros before including the header.
Moreover, the code in regexp.h that uses those macros has been buggy
since its creation (in 1996) and no one has noticed, which indicates
to me that there are no users.  (Specifically, RETURN() is used in a
whole bunch of cases where it should have been ERROR().)

The header is given a warning and marked deprecated for 2.22.

See:
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-07/msg00862.html and
https://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2015-07/msg00871.html.

2 files changed, 21 insertions, 18 deletions

diff --git a/misc/regexp.c b/misc/regexp.c
index 3b83203ced..ee7d572111 100644
--- a/misc/regexp.c
+++ b/misc/regexp.c
@@ -17,8 +17,10 @@
    License along with the GNU C Library; if not, see
    <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.  */
 
-#define __DO_NOT_DEFINE_COMPILE
-#include <regexp.h>
+/* We don't include regexp.h here because of the macros it requires, and
+   because it now contains an unconditional #warning.  */
+
+#include <regex.h>
 
 /* Define the variables used for the interface.  */
 char *loc1;
@@ -32,7 +34,6 @@ char *locs;
    found in the buffer starting at EXPBUF.  `loc1' will return the
    first character matched and `loc2' points to the next unmatched
    character.  */
-extern int __step (const char *string, const char *expbuf);
 int
 __step (const char *string, const char *expbuf)
 {
@@ -55,7 +56,6 @@ weak_alias (__step, step)
 /* Match the beginning of STRING with the compiled regular expression
    in EXPBUF.  If the match is successful `loc2' will contain the
    position of the first unmatched character.  */
-extern int __advance (const char *string, const char *expbuf);
 int
 __advance (const char *string, const char *expbuf)
 {
diff --git a/misc/regexp.h b/misc/regexp.h
index 3fc0bc518c..346098945d 100644
--- a/misc/regexp.h
+++ b/misc/regexp.h
@@ -19,14 +19,17 @@
 #ifndef _REGEXP_H
 #define _REGEXP_H	1
 
-/* The contents of this header file was first standardized in X/Open
-   System Interface and Headers Issue 2, originally coming from SysV.
-   In issue 4, version 2, it is marked as TO BE WITDRAWN, and it has
-   been withdrawn in SUSv3.
+/* The contents of this header file were standardized in the
+   Single Unix Specification, Version 2 (1997) but marked as
+   LEGACY; new applications were already being encouraged to
+   use <regex.h> instead.  POSIX.1-2001 removed this header.
 
-   This code shouldn't be used in any newly written code.  It is
-   included only for compatibility reasons.  Use the POSIX definition
-   in <regex.h> for portable applications and a reasonable interface.  */
+   This header is provided only for backward compatibility.
+   It will be removed in the next release of the GNU C Library.
+   New code should use <regex.h> instead.  */
+
+#warning "<regexp.h> will be removed in the next release of the GNU C Library."
+#warning "Please update your code to use <regex.h> instead (no trailing 'p')."
 
 #include <features.h>
 #include <alloca.h>
@@ -182,19 +185,19 @@ compile (char *__restrict instring, char *__restrict expbuf,
       case REG_ERPAREN:
       default:
 	/* There is no matching error code.  */
-	RETURN (36);
+	ERROR (36);
       case REG_ESUBREG:
-	RETURN (25);
+	ERROR (25);
       case REG_EBRACK:
-	RETURN (49);
+	ERROR (49);
       case REG_EPAREN:
-	RETURN (42);
+	ERROR (42);
       case REG_EBRACE:
-	RETURN (44);
+	ERROR (44);
       case REG_BADBR:
-	RETURN (46);
+	ERROR (46);
       case REG_ERANGE:
-	RETURN (11);
+	ERROR (11);
       case REG_ESPACE:
       case REG_ESIZE:
 	ERROR (50);