From: Carlo Arenas <carenas@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2019 09:01:32 GMT
Subject: Re: Can we just get rid of kwset & obstack in favor of optimistically using PCRE v2 JIT?
Message-ID: <CAPUEspjKxQFiRgmfb2SuR_xpVu4=MN66kGEeBK1pHdBgXQbv7Q@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <87v9x793qi.fsf@evledraar.gmail.com>

> It seems most packagers build with PCRE v2 now (CC:
> git-packagers@). I.e. we'd keep something like compile_fixed_regexp()
> (and as an aside just use PCRE's \Q...\E instead of our own escaping).

OpenBSD does PCRE v1 without JIT but HardenedBSD does and therefore
segfaults when calling: `git grep -P`.

A fix probably based on the old proposed patchset[1] will be needed in this case
with more urgency

Carlo

[1] https://public-inbox.org/git/20181209230024.43444-1-carenas@gmail.com/