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PCRE2-related workarounds that GNU grep might need

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: Carlo Arenas <carenas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 62657 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62657: PCRE2-related workarounds that GNU grep might need
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2023 23:23:20 -0700

On 2023-04-03 23:17, Carlo Arenas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 2:50 PM Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>>
>>     * Disable PCRE2_UCP unless PCRE2 10.35 or higher.
> 
> this is because of a bug in JIT, alternatively JIT could be disabled

Oh, that might be better as it doesn't affect behavior (just performance).

>>     * If ignoring case and PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF is defined, then
>> enable PCRE2_NO_START_OPTIMIZE unless PCRE2 10.36 or higher.
> 
> this one is only triggered when PCRE2_MULTILINE is used, which is not
> the case for GNU grep

Thanks for letting us know.

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