Re: -P '\d' in GNU and git grep

From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Apr 4, 2023, 06:56 UTC
Message-ID: <CAPUEspj1m6F0_XgOFUVaq3Aq_Ah3PzCUs7YUyFH9_Zz-MOYTTA@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <2554712d-e386-3bab-bc6c-1f0e85d999db@cs.ucla.edu>

On Mon, Apr 3, 2023 at 2:38 PM Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> wrote:

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> 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