Catching up on old mail... > Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:35:48 -0700 > From: Paul Eggert <egg...@cs.ucla.edu> > To: arn...@skeeve.com, we...@iastate.edu, 17856-d...@debbugs.gnu.org > Subject: Re: bug#17856: Unmatched right parenthesis in ERE > > 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.
Actually, I suspect that they'd be willing to accept updates to those macros. I don't think any could be removed, but we should be able to get them fixed. Thanks, Arnold
