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[PATCH v2] grep: correctly identify utf-8 characters with \{b,w} in -P

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Message #28 received at 60690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: demerphq <at> gmail.com, 60690 <at> debbugs.gnu.org,
 mega lith01 <megalith01 <at> gmail.com>,
 Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab <at> gmail.com>,
 git <at> vger.kernel.org, gitster <at> pobox.com,
 Tukusej’s Sirs <tukusejssirs <at> protonmail.com>,
 pcre-dev <at> exim.org
Subject: Re: -P '\d' in GNU and git grep
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 23:56:54 -0700

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 2:38 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> In researching this a bit further, I found that on March 23 Git disabled
> the use of PCRE2_UCP in PCRE2 10.34 or earlier[6], due to a PCRE2 bug
> that can cause a crash when PCRE2_UCP is used[7]. A bug fix[8] should
> appear in the next PCRE2 release.

Presume PCRE2 is a typo and should have been "git" here?

FWIW the PCRE2 fix[1] has been released already with 10.35 and
backporting to the Ubuntu 20.04 package that crashed in the original
report would also solve the crash with 10.34.

Carlo

[1] https://github.com/PCRE2Project/pcre2/commit/c21bd977547d

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