[lug] glibc regexp bug?

[D. Stimits]

I'm helping to debug some software which uses the regular expression 
functions of glibc: regcomp(), regexec(), regerror(), and regfree(). 
These functions behave as expected on older linux releases such as RH 
7.3, and some of the current releases of distros that don't update a lot 
(not sure which, probably debian). On fedora core 2 and 3 it breaks 
(possibly core 1, no way to test).

I'm trying to verify if the regular expression is valid or 
not...regcomp() always fails on this expression:
"*". Just a plain old wildcard that should stand for "any number of any 
character". Can anyone tell me if "*" is technically not a valid regular 
expression? Or is this a bug in glibc on fedora?

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net