[Bug 1945493] Re: Regression in JIT matching with ^

[Stuart Auchterlonie]

This was fixed upstream in https://vcs.pcre.org/pcre2?view=revision&revision=1315
which won't land before the next pcre2 release, leaving impish with a regression to
previous releases

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Title:
  Regression in JIT matching with ^

Status in pcre2 package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  pcre2 10.37 has a regression with its (jit) matching results.

  Steps to Reproduce:
  1. Install pcre2-tools
  2. Run `pcre2test -jit`
  3. At re> prompt, enter (with the quotes):
     "#(A+)#\d+"
  4. At the data> prompt, enter:
     #A#A#0

  Actual results:

  "No Match" in 21.10 - Impish Indri Beta

  
  Expected results:

  "#A#0" / "A" in 21.04 - hirsuite

  Upstream:
  - https://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2764 (fixed)

  Other info:

  # lsb_release -a
  No LSB modules are available.
  Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
  Description:	Ubuntu Impish Indri (development branch)
  Release:	21.10
  Codename:	impish

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