On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 12:35 PM, Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> wrote: > arn...@skeeve.com wrote: >> >> Y'all might want to consider basing RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_EGREP >> off of RE_SYNTAX_POSIX_EXTENDED; that would have gotten this case. > > > At some point we should clean out those old RE_SYNTAX_* macros; half of them > are just plain wrong anyway. However, doing that will require a fix to > glibc, which would take quite a long time to propagate through, and in the > meantime the attached patch should suffice. I've installed it and it should > appear in the next grep release. Thanks for reporting the bug, Nathan.
And thank you for the complete fix, Paul.
