Re: bin/53885 (awk ERE bug)

[christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

The following reply was made to PR bin/53885; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: christos%zoulas.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost, jdolecek%NetBSD.org@localhost, gnats-admin%netbsd.org@localhost, 
	netbsd-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost, kre%munnari.OZ.AU@localhost, 
	Martijn Dekker <martijn%inlv.org@localhost>
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Subject: Re: bin/53885 (awk ERE bug)
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2019 19:43:43 -0500

 On Jan 18, 11:30pm, jaromir.dolecek%gmail.com@localhost (=?UTF-8?B?SmFyb23DrXIgRG9sZcSNZWs=?=) wrote:
 -- Subject: Re: bin/53885 (awk ERE bug)
 
 |  Yeah, forgot I have pkg in path - nawk was from pkgsrc. The 'awk' is
 |  the one coming with system, and identifies itself as 20070501.
 |  
 |  Got the Apple sources and got repetition pattern locally to work with
 |  nawk 20121220. There is indeed specific added support for this,
 |  conditional upon "Unix2003_compat". I'll think how to integrate it to
 |  make this acceptable for upstream.
 
 I've already merged and committed the code.
 
 christos