Re: grep-2.9 released [stable]

[Paolo Bonzini]

On 06/21/2011 09:04 PM, Jim Meyering wrote:
** Bug fixes
   grep no longer clobbers heap for an ERE like '(^| )*( |$)'
   [bug introduced in grep-2.6]

I would have thought it had been there "since forever", so I am curious. 
 Have you bisected it to a precise commit?

Paolo