grep: disable lookahead on error

regexec(3) can fail.  E.g. on macOS it fails if it is used with an UTF-8
locale to match a valid regex against a buffer containing invalid UTF-8
characters.

git grep has two ways to search for matches in a file: Either it splits
its contents into lines and matches them separately, or it matches the
whole content and figures out line boundaries later.  The latter is done
by look_ahead() and it's quicker in the common case where most files
don't contain a match.

Fall back to line-by-line matching if look_ahead() encounters an
regexec(3) error by propagating errors out of patmatch() and bailing out
of look_ahead() if there is one.  This way we at least can find matches
in lines that contain only valid characters.  That matches the behavior
of grep(1) on macOS.

pcre2match() dies if pcre2_jit_match() or pcre2_match() fail, but since
we use the flag PCRE2_MATCH_INVALID_UTF it handles invalid UTF-8
characters gracefully.  So implement the fall-back only for regexec(3)
and leave the PCRE2 matching unchanged.

Reported-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Signed-off-by: René Scharfe <l.s.r@web.de>
Tested-by: David Gstir <david@sigma-star.at>
Signed-off-by: Taylor Blau <me@ttaylorr.com>

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