grep 2.5 bug?

[Padraig Brady]

Hi,

I just tried grep 2.5 and noticed problems
with the new -o and --color options.

They work fine except when there is a * in the regular expression.

This seems to cause an infinite loop:

echo "1 one" | ./grep -E "[0-9]*" -o

and this:

echo "1 one" | ./grep -E "[0-9]*" --color

however this is OK:            |
                               V
echo "1 one" | ./grep -E "[0-9]+" --color

thanks,
Padraig.

p.s. I couldn't connect to mail.gnu.org
to see was this already reported.