Make macro isUTF8_CHAR_flags an inline fcn

This makes it use the fast DFA for this functionality.

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/utf8.c b/utf8.c
index c78ce84ab5..7f26c8645c 100644
--- a/utf8.c
+++ b/utf8.c
@@ -817,7 +817,10 @@ Perl_is_utf8_char_helper(const U8 * const s, const U8 * e, const U32 flags)
 
     assert(0 == (flags & ~(UTF8_DISALLOW_ILLEGAL_INTERCHANGE
                           |UTF8_DISALLOW_PERL_EXTENDED)));
-    assert(! UTF8_IS_INVARIANT(*s));
+
+    if (UTF8_IS_INVARIANT(*s)) {
+        return 1;
+    }
 
     /* A variant char must begin with a start byte */
     if (UNLIKELY(! UTF8_IS_START(*s))) {