>> Well...the reason it bites you is that our off_t, and therefore
>> regoff_t, are larger than long ints.

> And why is regoff_t typedefed to off_t?  I'd think something like
> size_t or ssize_t would be more appropriate.

regex(3) says, in part,

	Otherwise, pmatch points to an array of nmatch structures of
	type regmatch_t.  Such a structure has at least the members
	rm_so and rm_eo, both of type regoff_t (a signed arithmetic
	type at least as large as an off_t and a ssize_t), [...]

Why this spec was chosen I have no idea.

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