> If you use --with-included-regex, the patch is a no-op. Thus it can be > reverted.
Whether or not you use the included regex, there are still problems, if not outright bugs, in that code that I pointed out in my initial mail several weeks ago. > > Personally, I think grep should always use the included regex so that > > then the behavior is consistent across all platforms everywhere; this > > is why gawk always uses its own regex. > > I wouldn't be surprised if GNU distros patch gawk's regex away to get > consistency with grep, sed, etc. Their loss. To date I know of no distro that does this. And the world is bigger than just GNU syystems. We've gone around on this before and we continue to disagree. I have nothing else to add to this discussion. Arnold
