bug#62769: pcre: correct overpessimistic error checking of pcre2_jit_compile()

[Carlo Arenas]

On Tue, Apr 11, 2023 at 3:11 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:
>
> On 4/10/23 23:47, Carlo Arenas wrote:
> > The original code was done in a way that would be useful during
> > porting, but that would hinder future work unnecessarily.
>
> Thanks, but wouldn't the attached patch be better?

Yes. but I would probably prefer voiding the return value to make it explicit.

> If I understand you
> correctly, we can simply ignore pcre2_jit_compile failure as the search
> will still succeed (albeit perhaps more slowly).

correct.

Carlo