Re: [PATCH] regex: fix false match with backrefs and $ anchor

[Jim Meyering]

On Sun, Apr 12, 2026 at 12:41 PM Collin Funk <collin.fu...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jim Meyering <j...@meyering.net> writes:
>
> >           } while (mctx->state_log[match_last] == NULL
> > -                  || !mctx->state_log[match_last]->halt);
> > +                  || !mctx->state_log[match_last]->halt
> > +                  || !check_halt_state_context (mctx,
> > +                                                
> > mctx->state_log[match_last],
> > +                                                match_last));
> >         halt_node = check_halt_state_context (mctx,
> >                                               mctx->state_log[match_last],
> >                                               match_last);
>
> Nice catch.
>
> I mostly copied your patch to glibc and sent it on list for review [1].
>
> [1] 
> https://inbox.sourceware.org/libc-alpha/01d8d5b649d0ce7ad68debec90e86bd9d4838266.1776022765.git.collin.fu...@gmail.com/T/#u

Perfect. Thank you.