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--- a/regcomp.c
+++ b/regcomp.c
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ typedef struct scan_frame {
     regnode *next_regnode;      /* next node to process when last is reached */
     U32 prev_recursed_depth;
     I32 stopparen;              /* what stopparen do we use */
+    bool in_gosub;              /* this or an outer frame is for GOSUB */
 
     struct scan_frame *this_prev_frame; /* this previous frame */
     struct scan_frame *prev_frame;      /* previous frame */
@@ -1497,15 +1498,15 @@ S_scan_commit(pTHX_ const RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, scan_data_t *data,
                        ? OPTIMIZE_INFTY
                        : (l
                           ? data->last_start_max
+                          /* temporary underflow guard for 5.32 */
+                          : data->pos_delta < 0 ? OPTIMIZE_INFTY
                           : (data->pos_delta > OPTIMIZE_INFTY - data->pos_min
                                         ? OPTIMIZE_INFTY
                                         : data->pos_min + data->pos_delta));
         }
 
-        if (data->flags & SF_BEFORE_EOL)
-            data->substrs[i].flags |= (data->flags & SF_BEFORE_EOL);
-        else
-            data->substrs[i].flags &= ~SF_BEFORE_EOL;
+        data->substrs[i].flags &= ~SF_BEFORE_EOL;
+        data->substrs[i].flags |= data->flags & SF_BEFORE_EOL;
         data->substrs[i].minlenp = minlenp;
         data->substrs[i].lookbehind = 0;
     }
@@ -4004,7 +4005,7 @@ S_construct_ahocorasick_from_trie(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode *sour
  *      character folded sequences.  Since a single character can fold into
  *      such a sequence, the minimum match length for this node is less than
  *      the number of characters in the node.  This routine returns in
- *      *min_subtract how many characters to subtract from the the actual
+ *      *min_subtract how many characters to subtract from the actual
  *      length of the string to get a real minimum match length; it is 0 if
  *      there are no multi-char foldeds.  This delta is used by the caller to
  *      adjust the min length of the match, and the delta between min and max,
@@ -4442,7 +4443,7 @@ S_join_exact(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode *scan,
                 s++;
             }
         }
-       else {
+       else if (OP(scan) != EXACTFAA_NO_TRIE) {
 
             /* Non-UTF-8 pattern, not EXACTFAA node.  Look for the multi-char
              * folds that are all Latin1.  As explained in the comments
@@ -4474,7 +4475,7 @@ S_join_exact(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode *scan,
                     /* EXACTF nodes need to know that the minimum length
                      * changed so that a sharp s in the string can match this
                      * ss in the pattern, but they remain EXACTF nodes, as they
-                     * won't match this unless the target string is is UTF-8,
+                     * won't match this unless the target string is in UTF-8,
                      * which we don't know until runtime.  EXACTFL nodes can't
                      * transform into EXACTFU nodes */
                     if (OP(scan) != EXACTF && OP(scan) != EXACTFL) {
@@ -4608,6 +4609,7 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                                    node length to get a real minimum (because
                                    the folded version may be shorter) */
        bool unfolded_multi_char = FALSE;
+        bool mutate_ok = (frame && frame->in_gosub) ? 0 : 1;
        /* Peephole optimizer: */
         DEBUG_STUDYDATA("Peep", data, depth, is_inf);
         DEBUG_PEEP("Peep", scan, depth, flags);
@@ -4618,10 +4620,14 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
          * parsing code, as each (?:..) is handled by a different invocation of
          * reg() -- Yves
          */
-        if (PL_regkind[OP(scan)] == EXACT && OP(scan) != LEXACT
-                                          && OP(scan) != LEXACT_REQ8)
+        if (PL_regkind[OP(scan)] == EXACT
+            && OP(scan) != LEXACT
+            && OP(scan) != LEXACT_REQ8
+            && mutate_ok
+        ) {
             join_exact(pRExC_state, scan, &min_subtract, &unfolded_multi_char,
                     0, NULL, depth + 1);
+        }
 
         /* Follow the next-chain of the current node and optimize
            away all the NOTHINGs from it.  */
@@ -4806,9 +4812,10 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                    }
                }
 
-                if (PERL_ENABLE_TRIE_OPTIMISATION &&
-                        OP( startbranch ) == BRANCH )
-                {
+                if (PERL_ENABLE_TRIE_OPTIMISATION
+                    && OP(startbranch) == BRANCH
+                    && mutate_ok
+                ) {
                /* demq.
 
                    Assuming this was/is a branch we are dealing with: 'scan'
@@ -5261,6 +5268,9 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                 newframe->stopparen = stopparen;
                 newframe->prev_recursed_depth = recursed_depth;
                 newframe->this_prev_frame= frame;
+                newframe->in_gosub = (
+                    (frame && frame->in_gosub) || OP(scan) == GOSUB
+                );
 
                 DEBUG_STUDYDATA("frame-new", data, depth, is_inf);
                 DEBUG_PEEP("fnew", scan, depth, flags);
@@ -5298,8 +5308,10 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                   offset, later match for variable offset.  */
                if (data->last_end == -1) { /* Update the start info. */
                    data->last_start_min = data->pos_min;
-                   data->last_start_max = is_inf
-                        ? OPTIMIZE_INFTY : data->pos_min + data->pos_delta;
+                    data->last_start_max =
+                        is_inf ? OPTIMIZE_INFTY
+                        : (data->pos_delta > OPTIMIZE_INFTY - data->pos_min)
+                            ? OPTIMIZE_INFTY : data->pos_min + data->pos_delta;
                }
                sv_catpvn(data->last_found, STRING(scan), bytelen);
                if (UTF)
@@ -5345,8 +5357,9 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                 &&   isALPHA_A(*s)
                 &&  (         OP(scan) == EXACTFAA
                      || (     OP(scan) == EXACTFU
-                         && ! HAS_NONLATIN1_SIMPLE_FOLD_CLOSURE(*s))))
-            {
+                         && ! HAS_NONLATIN1_SIMPLE_FOLD_CLOSURE(*s)))
+                &&   mutate_ok
+            ) {
                 U8 mask = ~ ('A' ^ 'a'); /* These differ in just one bit */
 
                 OP(scan) = ANYOFM;
@@ -5439,7 +5452,7 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
 
                 /* This temporary node can now be turned into EXACTFU, and
                  * must, as regexec.c doesn't handle it */
-                if (OP(next) == EXACTFU_S_EDGE) {
+                if (OP(next) == EXACTFU_S_EDGE && mutate_ok) {
                     OP(next) = EXACTFU;
                 }
 
@@ -5447,8 +5460,9 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                     &&   isALPHA_A(* STRING(next))
                     && (         OP(next) == EXACTFAA
                         || (     OP(next) == EXACTFU
-                            && ! HAS_NONLATIN1_SIMPLE_FOLD_CLOSURE(* STRING(next)))))
-                {
+                            && ! HAS_NONLATIN1_SIMPLE_FOLD_CLOSURE(* STRING(next))))
+                    &&   mutate_ok
+                ) {
                     /* These differ in just one bit */
                     U8 mask = ~ ('A' ^ 'a');
 
@@ -5595,7 +5609,9 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                if (  OP(oscan) == CURLYX && data
                      && data->flags & SF_IN_PAR
                      && !(data->flags & SF_HAS_EVAL)
-                     && !deltanext && minnext == 1 ) {
+                     && !deltanext && minnext == 1
+                      && mutate_ok
+                ) {
                    /* Try to optimize to CURLYN.  */
                    regnode *nxt = NEXTOPER(oscan) + EXTRA_STEP_2ARGS;
                    regnode * const nxt1 = nxt;
@@ -5645,10 +5661,10 @@ S_study_chunk(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode **scanp,
                      && !(data->flags & SF_HAS_EVAL)
                      && !deltanext     /* atom is fixed width */
                      && minnext != 0   /* CURLYM can't handle zero width */
-
                          /* Nor characters whose fold at run-time may be
                           * multi-character */
                       && ! (RExC_seen & REG_UNFOLDED_MULTI_SEEN)
+                      && mutate_ok
                ) {
                    /* XXXX How to optimize if data == 0? */
                    /* Optimize to a simpler form.  */
@@ -5966,7 +5982,10 @@ Perl_re_printf( aTHX_  "LHS=%" UVuf " RHS=%" UVuf "\n",
                                                           (regnode_charclass *) scan);
                    break;
 
-                case NANYOFM:
+                case NANYOFM: /* NANYOFM already contains the inversion of the
+                                 input ANYOF data, so, unlike things like
+                                 NPOSIXA, don't change 'invert' to TRUE */
+                    /* FALLTHROUGH */
                 case ANYOFM:
                   {
                     SV* cp_list = get_ANYOFM_contents(scan);
@@ -6876,7 +6895,7 @@ S_concat_pat(pTHX_ RExC_state_t * const pRExC_state,
         /* we make the assumption here that each op in the list of
          * op_siblings maps to one SV pushed onto the stack,
          * except for code blocks, with have both an OP_NULL and
-         * and OP_CONST.
+         * an OP_CONST.
          * This allows us to match up the list of SVs against the
          * list of OPs to find the next code block.
          *
@@ -6926,7 +6945,7 @@ S_concat_pat(pTHX_ RExC_state_t * const pRExC_state,
                 pRExC_state->code_blocks->count -= n;
             n = 0;
         }
-        else  {
+        else {
             /* ... or failing that, try "" overload */
             while (SvAMAGIC(msv)
                     && (sv = AMG_CALLunary(msv, string_amg))
@@ -7463,7 +7482,7 @@ S_set_regex_pv(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, REGEXP *Rx)
  * length of the pattern.  Patches welcome to improve that guess.  That amount
  * of space is malloc'd and then immediately freed, and then clawed back node
  * by node.  This design is to minimze, to the extent possible, memory churn
- * when doing the the reallocs.
+ * when doing the reallocs.
  *
  * A separate parentheses counting pass may be needed in some cases.
  * (Previously the sizing pass did this.)  Patches welcome to reduce the number
@@ -9700,7 +9719,7 @@ Perl__invlist_union_maybe_complement_2nd(pTHX_ SV* const a, SV* const b,
      * one of them */
     while (i_a < len_a && i_b < len_b) {
        UV cp;      /* The element to potentially add to the union's array */
-       bool cp_in_set;   /* is it in the the input list's set or not */
+       bool cp_in_set;   /* is it in the input list's set or not */
 
        /* We need to take one or the other of the two inputs for the union.
         * Since we are merging two sorted lists, we take the smaller of the
@@ -10658,7 +10677,7 @@ S_make_exactf_invlist(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, regnode *node)
         fc = uc = utf8_to_uvchr_buf(s, s + bytelen, NULL);
 
         /* The only code points that aren't folded in a UTF EXACTFish
-         * node are are the problematic ones in EXACTFL nodes */
+         * node are the problematic ones in EXACTFL nodes */
         if (OP(node) == EXACTFL && is_PROBLEMATIC_LOCALE_FOLDEDS_START_cp(uc)) {
             /* We need to check for the possibility that this EXACTFL
              * node begins with a multi-char fold.  Therefore we fold
@@ -11472,6 +11491,10 @@ S_reg(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 paren, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
            bool is_logical = 0;
            const char * const seqstart = RExC_parse;
             const char * endptr;
+            const char non_existent_group_msg[]
+                                            = "Reference to nonexistent group";
+            const char impossible_group[] = "Invalid reference to group";
+
             if (has_intervening_patws) {
                 RExC_parse++;
                 vFAIL("In '(?...)', the '(' and '?' must be adjacent");
@@ -11698,10 +11721,17 @@ S_reg(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 paren, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
                     ) {
                         num = (I32)unum;
                         RExC_parse = (char*)endptr;
-                    } else
-                        num = I32_MAX;
+                    }
+                    else {  /* Overflow, or something like that.  Position
+                               beyond all digits for the message */
+                        while (RExC_parse < RExC_end && isDIGIT(*RExC_parse))  {
+                            RExC_parse++;
+                        }
+                        vFAIL(impossible_group);
+                    }
                     if (is_neg) {
-                        /* Some limit for num? */
+                        /* -num is always representable on 1 and 2's complement
+                         * machines */
                         num = -num;
                     }
                 }
@@ -11709,45 +11739,43 @@ S_reg(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 paren, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
                    vFAIL("Expecting close bracket");
 
               gen_recurse_regop:
-                if ( paren == '-' ) {
+                if (paren == '-' || paren == '+') {
+
+                    /* Don't overflow */
+                    if (UNLIKELY(I32_MAX - RExC_npar < num)) {
+                        RExC_parse++;
+                        vFAIL(impossible_group);
+                    }
+
                     /*
                     Diagram of capture buffer numbering.
                     Top line is the normal capture buffer numbers
                     Bottom line is the negative indexing as from
                     the X (the (?-2))
 
-                    +   1 2    3 4 5 X          6 7
+                        1 2    3 4 5 X   Y      6 7
+                       /(a(x)y)(a(b(c(?+2)d)e)f)(g(h))/
                        /(a(x)y)(a(b(c(?-2)d)e)f)(g(h))/
-                    -   5 4    3 2 1 X          x x
+                    -   5 4    3 2 1 X   Y      x x
 
+                    Resolve to absolute group.  Recall that RExC_npar is +1 of
+                    the actual parenthesis group number.  For lookahead, we
+                    have to compensate for that.  Using the above example, when
+                    we get to Y in the parse, num is 2 and RExC_npar is 6.  We
+                    want 7 for +2, and 4 for -2.
                     */
-                    num = RExC_npar + num;
-                    if (num < 1)  {
+                    if ( paren == '+' ) {
+                        num--;
+                    }
 
-                        /* It might be a forward reference; we can't fail until
-                         * we know, by completing the parse to get all the
-                         * groups, and then reparsing */
-                        if (ALL_PARENS_COUNTED)  {
-                            RExC_parse++;
-                            vFAIL("Reference to nonexistent group");
-                        }
-                        else {
-                            REQUIRE_PARENS_PASS;
-                        }
+                    num += RExC_npar;
+
+                    if (paren == '-' && num < 1) {
+                        RExC_parse++;
+                        vFAIL(non_existent_group_msg);
                     }
-                } else if ( paren == '+' ) {
-                    num = RExC_npar + num - 1;
                 }
-                /* We keep track how many GOSUB items we have produced.
-                   To start off the ARG2L() of the GOSUB holds its "id",
-                   which is used later in conjunction with RExC_recurse
-                   to calculate the offset we need to jump for the GOSUB,
-                   which it will store in the final representation.
-                   We have to defer the actual calculation until much later
-                   as the regop may move.
-                 */
 
-                ret = reg2Lanode(pRExC_state, GOSUB, num, RExC_recurse_count);
                 if (num >= RExC_npar) {
 
                     /* It might be a forward reference; we can't fail until we
@@ -11756,13 +11784,23 @@ S_reg(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 paren, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
                     if (ALL_PARENS_COUNTED)  {
                         if (num >= RExC_total_parens) {
                             RExC_parse++;
-                            vFAIL("Reference to nonexistent group");
+                            vFAIL(non_existent_group_msg);
                         }
                     }
                     else {
                         REQUIRE_PARENS_PASS;
                     }
                 }
+
+                /* We keep track how many GOSUB items we have produced.
+                   To start off the ARG2L() of the GOSUB holds its "id",
+                   which is used later in conjunction with RExC_recurse
+                   to calculate the offset we need to jump for the GOSUB,
+                   which it will store in the final representation.
+                   We have to defer the actual calculation until much later
+                   as the regop may move.
+                 */
+                ret = reg2Lanode(pRExC_state, GOSUB, num, RExC_recurse_count);
                 RExC_recurse_count++;
                 DEBUG_OPTIMISE_MORE_r(Perl_re_printf( aTHX_
                     "%*s%*s Recurse #%" UVuf " to %" IVdf "\n",
@@ -13527,8 +13565,8 @@ S_regatom(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
                 /* SBOL is shared with /^/ so we set the flags so we can tell
                  * /\A/ from /^/ in split. */
                 FLAGS(REGNODE_p(ret)) = 1;
+                *flagp |= SIMPLE;   /* Wrong, but too late to fix for 5.32 */
             }
-           *flagp |= SIMPLE;
            goto finish_meta_pat;
        case 'G':
             if (RExC_pm_flags & PMf_WILDCARD) {
@@ -13566,8 +13604,8 @@ S_regatom(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
             }
             else {
                 ret = reg_node(pRExC_state, SEOL);
+                *flagp |= SIMPLE;   /* Wrong, but too late to fix for 5.32 */
             }
-           *flagp |= SIMPLE;
            RExC_seen_zerolen++;                /* Do not optimize RE away */
            goto finish_meta_pat;
        case 'z':
@@ -13577,8 +13615,8 @@ S_regatom(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
             }
             else {
                 ret = reg_node(pRExC_state, EOS);
+                *flagp |= SIMPLE;   /* Wrong, but too late to fix for 5.32 */
             }
-           *flagp |= SIMPLE;
            RExC_seen_zerolen++;                /* Do not optimize RE away */
            goto finish_meta_pat;
        case 'C':
@@ -15135,9 +15173,6 @@ S_regatom(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
                         * have to map that back to the original */
                         if (need_to_fold_loc) {
                             upper_fill = loc_correspondence[s - s_start];
-                            Safefree(locfold_buf);
-                            Safefree(loc_correspondence);
-
                             if (upper_fill == 0) {
                                 FAIL2("panic: loc_correspondence[%d] is 0",
                                       (int) (s - s_start));
@@ -15148,10 +15183,6 @@ S_regatom(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
                         }
                         goto reparse;
                     }
-                    else if (need_to_fold_loc) {
-                        Safefree(locfold_buf);
-                        Safefree(loc_correspondence);
-                    }
 
                     /* Here the node consists entirely of non-final multi-char
                      * folds.  (Likely it is all 'f's or all 's's.)  There's no
@@ -15159,6 +15190,11 @@ S_regatom(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth)
                      * whole thing */
                     len = old_s - s0;
                 }
+
+                if (need_to_fold_loc) {
+                    Safefree(locfold_buf);
+                    Safefree(loc_correspondence);
+                }
            }   /* End of verifying node ends with an appropriate char */
 
             /* We need to start the next node at the character that didn't fit
@@ -16428,7 +16464,10 @@ redo_curchar:
                            /* If more than a single node returned, the nested
                             * parens evaluated to more than just a (?[...]),
                             * which isn't legal */
-                        || node != 1) {
+                        || RExC_emit != orig_emit
+                                      + NODE_STEP_REGNODE
+                                      + regarglen[REGEX_SET])
+                    {
                         vFAIL("Expecting interpolated extended charclass");
                     }
                     resultant_invlist = (SV *) ARGp(REGNODE_p(node));
@@ -16479,6 +16518,8 @@ redo_curchar:
                     goto regclass_failed;
                 }
 
+                assert(current);
+
                 /* regclass() will return with parsing just the \ sequence,
                  * leaving the parse pointer at the next thing to parse */
                 RExC_parse--;
@@ -16516,9 +16557,7 @@ redo_curchar:
                     goto regclass_failed;
                 }
 
-                if (! current) {
-                    break;
-                }
+                assert(current);
 
                 /* function call leaves parse pointing to the ']', except if we
                  * faked it */
@@ -16827,7 +16866,7 @@ redo_curchar:
     if (RExC_sets_depth) {  /* If within a recursive call, return in a special
                                regnode */
         RExC_parse++;
-        node = regpnode(pRExC_state, REGEX_SET, (void *) final);
+        node = regpnode(pRExC_state, REGEX_SET, final);
     }
     else {
 
@@ -17333,6 +17372,7 @@ S_regclass(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth,
     PERL_UNUSED_ARG(depth);
 #endif
 
+    assert(! (ret_invlist && allow_mutiple_chars));
 
     /* If wants an inversion list returned, we can't optimize to something
      * else. */
@@ -17702,7 +17742,18 @@ S_regclass(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth,
                     assert(prop_definition || strings);
 
                     if (strings) {
-                        if (! RExC_in_multi_char_class) {
+                        if (ret_invlist) {
+                            if (! prop_definition) {
+                                RExC_parse = e + 1;
+                                vFAIL("Unicode string properties are not implemented in (?[...])");
+                            }
+                            else {
+                                ckWARNreg(e + 1,
+                                    "Using just the single character results"
+                                    " returned by \\p{} in (?[...])");
+                            }
+                        }
+                        else if (! RExC_in_multi_char_class) {
                             if (invert ^ (value == 'P')) {
                                 RExC_parse = e + 1;
                                 vFAIL("Inverting a character class which contains"
@@ -18273,7 +18324,7 @@ S_regclass(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth,
                      * printable should have each end point be a portable value
                      * for it (preferably like 'A', but we don't warn if it is
                      * a (portable) Unicode name or code point), and the range
-                     * must be be all digits or all letters of the same case.
+                     * must be all digits or all letters of the same case.
                      * Otherwise, the range is non-portable and unclear as to
                      * what it contains */
                     if (             (isPRINT_A(prevvalue) || isPRINT_A(value))
@@ -18931,7 +18982,7 @@ S_regclass(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth,
     if (ret_invlist) {
         *ret_invlist = cp_list;
 
-        return RExC_emit;
+        return (cp_list) ? RExC_emit : 0;
     }
 
     if (anyof_flags & ANYOF_LOCALE_FLAGS) {
@@ -19272,7 +19323,7 @@ S_regclass(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, I32 *flagp, U32 depth,
                      * points) in the ASCII range, so we can't use it here to
                      * artificially restrict the fold domain, so we check if
                      * the class does or does not match some EXACTFish node.
-                     * Further, if we aren't under /i, and and the folded-to
+                     * Further, if we aren't under /i, and the folded-to
                      * character is part of a multi-character fold, we can't do
                      * this optimization, as the sequence around it could be
                      * that multi-character fold, and we don't here know the
@@ -20435,10 +20486,10 @@ S_reganode(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, U8 op, U32 arg)
 }
 
 /*
-- regpnode - emit a temporary node with a void* argument
+- regpnode - emit a temporary node with a SV* argument
 */
 STATIC regnode_offset /* Location. */
-S_regpnode(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, U8 op, void * arg)
+S_regpnode(pTHX_ RExC_state_t *pRExC_state, U8 op, SV * arg)
 {
     const regnode_offset ret = regnode_guts(pRExC_state, op, regarglen[op], "regpnode");
     regnode_offset ptr = ret;
@@ -21453,7 +21504,9 @@ SV *
 Perl_re_intuit_string(pTHX_ REGEXP * const r)
 {                              /* Assume that RE_INTUIT is set */
     /* Returns an SV containing a string that must appear in the target for it
-     * to match */
+     * to match, or NULL if nothing is known that must match.
+     *
+     * CAUTION: the SV can be freed during execution of the regex engine */
 
     struct regexp *const prog = ReANY(r);
     DECLARE_AND_GET_RE_DEBUG_FLAGS;
@@ -22646,7 +22699,7 @@ S_put_charclass_bitmap_innards(pTHX_ SV *sv,
 
         int inverted_bias, as_is_bias;
 
-        /* We will apply our bias to whichever of the the results doesn't have
+        /* We will apply our bias to whichever of the results doesn't have
          * the '^' */
         if (invert) {
             invert = FALSE;
@@ -23476,7 +23529,7 @@ S_handle_user_defined_property(pTHX_
 #    define CUR_CONTEXT      aTHX
 #    define ORIGINAL_CONTEXT save_aTHX
 #  else
-#    define DECLARATION_FOR_GLOBAL_CONTEXT
+#    define DECLARATION_FOR_GLOBAL_CONTEXT    dNOOP
 #    define SWITCH_TO_GLOBAL_CONTEXT          NOOP
 #    define RESTORE_CONTEXT                   NOOP
 #    define CUR_CONTEXT                       NULL
@@ -24973,8 +25026,10 @@ S_handle_names_wildcard(pTHX_ const char * wname, /* wildcard name to match */
                                    where we are now */
     bool found_matches = FALSE; /* Did any name match so far? */
     SV * empty;                 /* For matching zero length names */
-    SV * must;                  /* What substring, if any, must be in a name
-                                   for the subpattern to match */
+    SV * must_sv;               /* Contains the substring, if any, that must be
+                                   in a name for the subpattern to match */
+    const char * must;          /* The PV of 'must' */
+    STRLEN must_len;            /* And its length */
     SV * syllable_name = NULL;  /* For Hangul syllables */
     const char hangul_prefix[] = "HANGUL SYLLABLE ";
     const STRLEN hangul_prefix_len = sizeof(hangul_prefix) - 1;
@@ -25039,7 +25094,23 @@ S_handle_names_wildcard(pTHX_ const char * wname, /* wildcard name to match */
 
     /* Compile the subpattern consisting of the name being looked for */
     subpattern_re = compile_wildcard(wname, wname_len, FALSE /* /-i */ );
-    must = re_intuit_string(subpattern_re);
+
+    must_sv = re_intuit_string(subpattern_re);
+    if (must_sv) {
+        /* regexec.c can free the re_intuit_string() return. GH #17734 */
+        must_sv = sv_2mortal(newSVsv(must_sv));
+        must = SvPV(must_sv, must_len);
+    }
+    else {
+        must = "";
+        must_len = 0;
+    }
+
+    /* (Note: 'must' could contain a NUL.  And yet we use strspn() below on it.
+     * This works because the NUL causes the function to return early, thus
+     * showing that there are characters in it other than the acceptable ones,
+     * which is our desired result.) */
+
     prog = ReANY(subpattern_re);
 
     /* If only nothing is matched, skip to where empty names are looked for */
@@ -25049,10 +25120,7 @@ S_handle_names_wildcard(pTHX_ const char * wname, /* wildcard name to match */
 
     /* And match against the string of all names /gc.  Don't even try if it
      * must match a character not found in any name. */
-    if ( ! must
-        || SvCUR(must) == 0
-        || strspn(SvPVX(must), "\n -0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ()")
-                                                              == SvCUR(must))
+    if (strspn(must, "\n -0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ()") == must_len)
     {
         while (execute_wildcard(subpattern_re,
                                 cur_pos,
@@ -25192,9 +25260,7 @@ S_handle_names_wildcard(pTHX_ const char * wname, /* wildcard name to match */
      * one of the characters in that isn't in any Hangul syllable. */
     if (    prog->minlen <= (SSize_t) syl_max_len
         &&  prog->maxlen > 0
-        && ( ! must
-            || SvCUR(must) == 0
-            || strspn(SvPVX(must), "\n ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWY") == SvCUR(must)))
+        && (strspn(must, "\n ABCDEGHIJKLMNOPRSTUWY") == must_len))
     {
         /* These constants, names, values, and algorithm are adapted from the
          * Unicode standard, version 5.1, section 3.12, and should never
@@ -25289,9 +25355,7 @@ S_handle_names_wildcard(pTHX_ const char * wname, /* wildcard name to match */
          * series */
         if (    prog->minlen <= (SSize_t) SvCUR(algo_name)
             &&  prog->maxlen > 0
-            && ( ! must
-                || SvCUR(must) == 0
-                || strspn(SvPVX(must), legal) == SvCUR(must)))
+            && (strspn(must, legal) == must_len))
         {
             for (j = low; j <= high; j++) { /* For each code point in the series */