suppress backref processing in ERE regcomp
authorRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:25:01 +0000 (18:25 -0400)
committerRich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>
Fri, 20 Mar 2015 22:28:37 +0000 (18:28 -0400)
commit7c8c86f6308c7e0816b9638465a5917b12159e8f
tree1ed8044a0a76be0bd66ecf93e055e524c1ba0fd8
parent39dfd58417ef642307d90306e1c7e50aaec5a35c
suppress backref processing in ERE regcomp

one of the features of ERE is that it's actually a regular language
and does not admit expressions which cannot be matched in linear time.
introduction of \n backref support into regcomp's ERE parsing was
unintentional.
src/regex/regcomp.c