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Re: Bug in Glibc Regex

Andreas Pour <pour@mieterra.com> writes:

> Well, it worked under prior versions of glibc.  And my understanding of
> '{' and '}' is that they are special only when followed by a number;
> that is how it is defined in the regex man page:

Man pages are irrelevant.  Read the standard.  What you did is not
defined.  Be happy that nothing worse happens.  Fix your code.

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