ext/pcre: document variable-length lookbehind and longer subpattern names (PHP 8.4) - #5739
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Document variable-length lookbehind as the current behaviour and move the fixed-length restriction below, as historical information for versions prior to PHP 8.4.0.
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ext/pcre: update to PCRE2 v10.44, ext/pcre: update to PCRE2 v10.44 php-src#14498)Checked on
php:8.3-cli(PCRE 10.42) andphp:8.4-cli(PCRE 10.44):(?<!dogs?|cats?)barand(?<=ab(c|de))xfail to compile on 8.3 and compile and match on 8.4