bug#15758: grep 2.15 calls abort() on larger searches with -P

[Jim Meyering]

On Tue, Nov 26, 2013 at 6:30 AM, Santiago <address@hidden> wrote:
> This bug was also reported in Debian ( http://bugs.debian.org/730472 ).
>
> Taking a look on it, I think the most suitable solution for the moment
> is to flag PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK instead of PCRE_UTF8, so
> PCRE does not check if inputs are UTF8 valid. Resulting behavior is
> similar to pre-grep-2.15. (See 15758-PCRE-no-check-UTF8.patch)

Thanks for the suggested patches and report.  Your first patch is
almost right.  The problem is that we cannot remove the PCRE_UTF8 flag.
If we did that, it would disable UTF-8, reverting an older fix.
See tests/pcre-utf8 for examples, or run this:

  printf '\342\202\254\n' | LC_ALL=en_US.UTF-8 src/grep -P '^\p{S}'

I've added a commit log, improved a related test and attached
a slightly different patch, but left you as the "Author".
I'll wait for an explicit ACK before pushing it.

With that, there is no need to handle PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8
because that should not happen.