regexec calls with REG_STARTEND find ghost matches for \>

[Florian Weimer]

On 01/15/2017 08:29 PM, Benno Schulenberg wrote:
> When calling regexec with the REG_STARTEND flag and providing
> an end-of-range value in .rm_eo that points to somewhere in
> the middle of a word, regexec will nevertheless find a match
> for \> at that offset.  The corresponding case for \<, with a
> start-of-range value in .rm_so that points to the middle of a
> word, will /not/ find a match for \< there.  The latter is
> what I expected, the former was a surprise.

I agree that this looks like a bug.  Would you please file it in
Bugzilla?  Thanks.

  https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/

Florian