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Re: Fix regexp parsing with RE_CONTEXT_INDEP_OPS

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com
Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 15:06:59 -0800
Subject: Re: Fix regexp parsing with RE_CONTEXT_INDEP_OPS
Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
References: <m3brqdt50z.fsf@whitebox.as.local> <20031213084648.GM12344@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> <m37k10uddh.fsf@whitebox.as.local>

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Andreas Schwab wrote:
> Posixly the
> behaviour of "(*)" is undefined, which is probably why it's not in
> rxspencer.  But it looks like it's part of traditional egrep
> behaviour,

Where do you have this "traditional egrep behavior" information from?
Solaris' egrep fails with errors for "(*)b" and "()b".  Which
implementation behaves the way you expect it?

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