Comment by arp242
2 years ago
> GNU grep is over 3000 LOC, whereas the FreeBSD version is 724.
Where are you getting that number from? Because I have a bit over 1,500 lines in usr.bin/grep (code only, excluding comments and blanks) vs. 3,900 for GNU grep.
Also you can't compile bsdgrep with just POSIX libc (such as musl) since it relies on some extensions (specifically: REG_STARTEND). So if you're looking for POSIX_ME_HARDER then bsdgrep isn't actually the right place.
I suppose that only the lines of usr.bin/grep/grep.c have been counted by the previous poster.
The number of lines is obviously version-dependent. Looking at the file mentioned above on a FreeBSD system to which I happen to be connected, I see 805 lines, including the comments and blanks, while all the source files total 2027 lines, also including the comments and blanks.
They probably also aren't counting the lines of whatever is in gnulib that GNU grep uses.
Please don't make this thread NSFW.