Sun Nov  4 18:47:56 EET 2007  Ville Laurikari <vl@iki.fi>
  * Fixed a bug in \<.
  \< always matched at the beginning of the string.  Thanks to Shmuel
  Zeigerman for the bug report.
  
  See http://laurikari.net/pipermail/tre-general/2007-February/000128.html
diff -rN -u old-stable/lib/tre-match-utils.h new-stable/lib/tre-match-utils.h
--- old-stable/lib/tre-match-utils.h	2007-11-04 20:30:23.000000000 +0200
+++ new-stable/lib/tre-match-utils.h	2007-11-04 20:30:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -161,7 +161,7 @@
        && (next_c != L'\0' || reg_noteol)				      \
        && (next_c != L'\n' || !reg_newline))				      \
    || ((assertions & ASSERT_AT_BOW)					      \
-       && (pos > 0 && (IS_WORD_CHAR(prev_c) || !IS_WORD_CHAR(next_c))))	      \
+       && (IS_WORD_CHAR(prev_c) || !IS_WORD_CHAR(next_c)))		      \
    || ((assertions & ASSERT_AT_EOW)					      \
        && (!IS_WORD_CHAR(prev_c) || IS_WORD_CHAR(next_c)))		      \
    || ((assertions & ASSERT_AT_WB)					      \
diff -rN -u old-stable/tests/retest.c new-stable/tests/retest.c
--- old-stable/tests/retest.c	2007-11-04 20:30:23.000000000 +0200
+++ new-stable/tests/retest.c	2007-11-04 20:30:23.000000000 +0200
@@ -1121,6 +1121,8 @@
   test_exec("aax xxa", 0, REG_OK, 2, 3, END);
   test_comp("\\Bx\\b", REG_EXTENDED, 0);
   test_exec("aax xxx", 0, REG_OK, 2, 3, END);
+  test_comp("\\<.", REG_EXTENDED, 0);
+  test_exec(";xaa", 0, REG_OK, 1, 2, END);
 
   /* Shorthands for character classes. */
   test_comp("\\w+", REG_EXTENDED, 0);