but the reality is that this 1 was added to the regexp engine's "byte
offsets" which are not 1-based byte positions as used throughout
the rest of Emacs, but they are BEGV_BYTE-relative offsets, so the two
did not cancel out.
* src/regex-emacs.c (PTR_TO_OFFSET, POS_AS_IN_BUFFER): Delete macros;
use `POINTER_TO_OFFSET` instead.
(re_search_2, re_match_2, re_match_2_internal): Adjust accordingly.
* src/syntax.h (SYNTAX_TABLE_BYTE_TO_CHAR): Don't remove 1 from buffer
byteoffsets now that `POS_AS_IN_BUFFER` doesn't add it any more.