bug#62657: PCRE2-related workarounds that GNU grep might need

[Paul Eggert]

On 2023-04-03 23:17, Carlo Arenas wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 2:50 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@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.