The bug report

[ID 19991110.002] minimal matching discrepancy found by pcre author
seems to have been fixed (though differently from what was suggested
in the report) in 5.6.0.  Add tests to keep the bug from reappearing.

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@6408

diff --git a/t/op/re_tests b/t/op/re_tests
index b3137c7..1e95a35 100644 (file)
--- a/t/op/re_tests
+++ b/t/op/re_tests
@@ -758,3 +758,5 @@ tt+$        xxxtt   y       -       -
 ^([^,]*,){2}c  a,b,c   y       $1      b,
 (?i)           y       -       -
 '(?!\A)x'm     a\nxb\n y       -       -
+^(a(b)?)+$     aba     y       -$1-$2- -a--
+^(aa(bb)?)+$   aabbaa  y       -$1-$2- -aa--