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workaround PCRE2 bug affecting at least \D and \W

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From: Jim Meyering <jim <at> meyering.net>
To: Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón <carenas <at> gmail.com>
Cc: 62983 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#62983: workaround PCRE2 bug affecting at least \D and \W
Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2023 19:33:25 -0700

On Thu, Apr 20, 2023 at 7:05 PM Carlo Marcelo Arenas Belón
<carenas <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> All versions of PCRE2 that include PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF had a bug on
> its JIT implementation that results in failure to match for the negative
> perl classes, and seems to be easier to replicate when the matching
> character is a multibyte one.
>
> Disable that flag and use the original fallback instead.
>
> Alternatively JIT could be disabled instead, but the option selected has
> less of an impact on performance.

Thanks for the patch! Is there any PCRE-upstream discussion about this?
If so, I'd like to reference that from your commit log.

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