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regex(3): Correct branching oversight from rS320742
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Authored by kevans on Jul 7 2017, 6:22 PM.
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Summary

Correctly ignore branch operators in the top-level parser when applicable.

An oversight in rS320742 caused BREs to become sensitive to the branching operator prematurely, which caused
breakage in some limited situations -- namely, those that tried to use branching in a BRE. Most of these scenarios
had already been corrected beforehand to properly use gsed or grep for GNU extensions, so the damage is
slightly mitigated.

Reported by: antoine

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Can we add a base test to catch this?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Jul 7 2017, 6:47 PM
This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.