Re: PR11334 progress update

[Serguei Makarov <smakarov at redhat dot com>]

As an add-on to the notes I just posted, here is a brief 20,000-foot overview of what the final regex feature should work like internally:
- We traverse all uses of the =~ operator, building a global table of regexes for the script. (The same regex being used in more than one place is represented by just one table entry.)
- A slightly tweaked version of re2c is run to emit a state machine (in the form of a C helper function with a bunch of switch()es and gotos) that matches the expression. The name of the function is recorded in the table under the corresponding regex. 
- When translating uses of =~, emit a call to the corresponding helper function.
- If we need to grab subexpressions of a match, the helper function saves a regmatch-like array in the probe context. A tapset defines the matched() functions, which are written in embedded-C and query this array in straightforward fashion for coordinates, then extract the appropriate substring.

- Serguei