Quantifiers following (*VERB)s were not being diagnosed.

ChangeLog

@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ copied).
       incorrect code and insufficient checking while searching for the end of 
       the called subroutine in the parsed pattern.
       
+  (m) Quantifiers following (*VERB)s were not being diagnosed as errors.
+
 4. Back references are now permitted in lookbehind assertions when there are 
 no duplicated group numbers (that is, (?| has not been used), and, if the 
 reference is by name, there is only one group of that name. The referenced

src/pcre2_compile.c

@@ -2362,6 +2362,7 @@ while (ptr < ptrend)
 
       case CHAR_RIGHT_PARENTHESIS:
       inverbname = FALSE;
+      okquantifier = FALSE;   /* Was probably set by literals */ 
       /* This is the length in characters */
       verbnamelength = (PCRE2_SIZE)(parsed_pattern - verblengthptr - 1);
       /* But the limit on the length is in code units */

testdata/testinput2

@@ -4918,4 +4918,6 @@ a)"xI
 
 /(?<=(?1))((?s))/anchored
 
+/(*:ab)*/
+
 # End of testinput2 

testdata/testoutput2

@@ -15369,6 +15369,9 @@ Failed: error 128 at offset 2: assertion expected after (?( or (?(?C)
 
 /(?<=(?1))((?s))/anchored
 
+/(*:ab)*/
+Failed: error 109 at offset 6: quantifier does not follow a repeatable item
+
 # End of testinput2 
 Error -63: PCRE2_ERROR_BADDATA (unknown error number)
 Error -62: bad serialized data