Subject: Re: bug#16586: grep: infinite loop in grep -P on some files with invalid UTF-8 sequences

From: Jim Meyering <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2014 09:24:33 -0700

On Tue, Apr 15, 2014 at 7:48 AM, Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> wrote:
> Santiago wrote:
>> it was a debian-pcre-specific bug.
>
> Thanks, closing the bug upstream.

This bug is still present in upstream libpcre version 8.35.
I wrote a patch for it, posted at http://debbugs.gnu.org/17245#26
and Norihiro forwarded it on to the libpcre bug tracker here:
http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1468