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diff --git a/libbb/xregcomp.c b/libbb/xregcomp.c
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+/* vi: set sw=4 ts=4: */
+/*
+ * Utility routines.
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) many different people.
+ * If you wrote this, please acknowledge your work.
+ *
+ * Licensed under GPLv2 or later, see file LICENSE in this tarball for details.
+ */
+
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include "libbb.h"
+#include "xregex.h"
+
+
+
+void xregcomp(regex_t *preg, const char *regex, int cflags)
+{
+	int ret;
+	if ((ret = regcomp(preg, regex, cflags)) != 0) {
+		int errmsgsz = regerror(ret, preg, NULL, 0);
+		char *errmsg = xmalloc(errmsgsz);
+		regerror(ret, preg, errmsg, errmsgsz);
+		bb_error_msg_and_die("xregcomp: %s", errmsg);
+	}
+}