standards/54410: one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs)

[Garrett Wollman]

<<On Mon, 25 Oct 2004 23:19:12 +0200, des at des.no (=?iso-8859-1?q?Dag-Erling_Sm=F8rgrav?=) said:

> Is the libc regex code POSIX-compliant and locale-aware?

Nearly impossible to prove since nobody is quite sure what the POSIX
specification for regexps actually means.

Perhaps the right way to ask that question is: Could you formulate an
argument that makes the wording in POSIX agree with what the libc
regex code does?

-GAWollman