diff --git a/mingw-w64-pcre2/PKGBUILD b/mingw-w64-pcre2/PKGBUILD
index bc006c87e597f..e6cf08e40a23f 100644
--- a/mingw-w64-pcre2/PKGBUILD
+++ b/mingw-w64-pcre2/PKGBUILD
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 _realname=pcre2
 pkgbase=mingw-w64-${_realname}
 pkgname="${MINGW_PACKAGE_PREFIX}-${_realname}"
-pkgver=10.43
+pkgver=10.44
 pkgrel=1
 pkgdesc="A library that implements Perl 5-style regular expressions (mingw-w64)"
 arch=('any')
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ source=(https://github.com/PhilipHazel/pcre2/releases/download/${_realname}-${pk
         0006-RunGrepTest-work-around-Unix-vs-Windows-path-issues.patch
         0007-RunGrepTest-Windows-does-not-have-a-bin-echo.patch
         0008-RunGrepTest-work-around-MSYS2-idiosyncrasy.patch)
-sha256sums=('e2a53984ff0b07dfdb5ae4486bbb9b21cca8e7df2434096cc9bf1b728c350bcb'
+sha256sums=('d34f02e113cf7193a1ebf2770d3ac527088d485d4e047ed10e5d217c6ef5de96'
             'SKIP'
             'bf9f757e17f72009ee04af33c4e5d153ce6f4181e3ad8381d9306019f395048d'
             'ab57fb231b459365311c77de051481bfd4b589029e5011a24a0326898a4e018d'
@@ -73,7 +73,22 @@ build() {
 
 check() {
   cd "${srcdir}/build-${MSYSTEM}"
-  make check
+
+  # Work around bug in PCRE2 10.44
+  test i686 != "$CARCH" ||
+  for f in testdata/testoutput8-8-2 testdata/testoutput8-16-2 testdata/testoutput8-32-2
+  do
+    cp "../${_realname}-${pkgver}/$f" "../${_realname}-${pkgver}/$f.backup"
+    perl -pi -e 's{^(Memory allocation - compiled block : )(\d+)$}{$1 . ($2 - 24)}e' "../${_realname}-${pkgver}/$f"
+  done
+
+  make check || return 1
+
+  for f in testdata/testoutput8-8-2 testdata/testoutput8-16-2 testdata/testoutput8-32-2
+  do
+    test ! -f "../${_realname}-${pkgver}/$f.backup" ||
+    mv "../${_realname}-${pkgver}/$f.backup" "../${_realname}-${pkgver}/$f"
+  done
 }
 
 package() {