diff --git a/include/boost/regex/v4/instances.hpp b/include/boost/regex/v4/instances.hpp
index 007ffd35..9e9060ca 100644
--- a/include/boost/regex/v4/instances.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/regex/v4/instances.hpp
@@ -60,7 +60,11 @@ template class BOOST_REGEX_DECL reg_expression< BOOST_REGEX_CHAR_T >;
 #elif (defined(BOOST_MSVC) && defined(_MSC_EXTENSIONS)) || defined(__GNUC__)
 
 #  ifndef BOOST_REGEX_INSTANTIATE
-#     define template extern template
+#     ifdef __GNUC__
+#        define template __extension__ extern template
+#     else
+#        define template extern template
+#     endif
 #  endif
 
 #  ifdef BOOST_MSVC
diff --git a/include/boost/regex/v4/perl_matcher_common.hpp b/include/boost/regex/v4/perl_matcher_common.hpp
index 20148375..ad661d22 100644
--- a/include/boost/regex/v4/perl_matcher_common.hpp
+++ b/include/boost/regex/v4/perl_matcher_common.hpp
@@ -413,10 +413,11 @@ bool perl_matcher<BidiIterator, Allocator, traits, Allocator2>::match_match()
    m_presult->set_second(position);
    pstate = 0;
    m_has_found_match = true;
-   if((m_match_flags & (match_posix|match_any)) == match_posix)
+   if((m_match_flags & match_posix) == match_posix)
    {
       m_result.maybe_assign(*m_presult);
-      return false;
+      if((m_match_flags & match_any) == 0)
+         return false;
    }
 #ifdef BOOST_REGEX_MATCH_EXTRA
    if(match_extra & m_match_flags)