Fix regexp parsing with RE_CONTEXT_INDEP_OPS

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Sun Dec 14 23:08:00 GMT 2003


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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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