[Bug 54410] one-true-awk not POSIX compliant (no extended REs)

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Martijn Dekker <mcdutchie at hotmail.com> changed:

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--- Comment #4 from Martijn Dekker <mcdutchie at hotmail.com> ---
Apple's branch of onetrueawk has supported ERE bounds (a.k.a.
interval/repetition expressions) since at least 2009, judging by the date stamp
on their src/b.c in:
https://opensource.apple.com/tarballs/awk/awk-24.tar.gz

I reported this to NetBSD:
http://gnats.netbsd.org/53885

They swiftly integrated the ERE bounds code into their onetrueawk branch. The
NetBSD diff can be seen at:
https://github.com/NetBSD/src/commit/f3e4c4ca1dfcdd939a2e33ebfe708f01e25b3bae

I hope FreeBSD will follow suit and add this required POSIX feature as well.

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