pdflatex error with double carets in listings code block

[Wandmalfarbe]

A document containing two carets inside an inline codeblock (--) generates an error when compiled with pdflatex and the option --listings.

input file document.md

Hello `^^` World

command line

pandoc document.md --from markdown --template default.latex --listings -o document.pdf

complete Terminal output

Error producing PDF.
! File ended while scanning use of \lst@temp.
<inserted text> 
                \par 
<*> ...000gn/T/tex2pdf.-ea3e0ee41cbcc291/input.tex
                                                   
Here is how much of TeX's memory you used:
 13838 strings out of 492163
 198329 string characters out of 6125305
 298517 words of memory out of 5000000
 18053 multiletter control sequences out of 15000+600000
 7559 words of font info for 18 fonts, out of 8000000 for 9000
 1141 hyphenation exceptions out of 8191
 47i,4n,42p,887b,956s stack positions out of 5000i,500n,10000p,200000b,80000s

!  ==> Fatal error occurred, no output PDF file produced!

The document is typeset correctly when manually removing the \passthrough{} command around the \lstinline command like this Hello \lstinline!^^! World.

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Please see the original issue here Wandmalfarbe/pandoc-latex-template#157.

[Wandmalfarbe]

pandoc 2.8.1
Compiled with pandoc-types 1.20, texmath 0.12, skylighting 0.8.3

TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2019)
kpathsea version 6.3.1

latex --version
pdfTeX 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.20 (TeX Live 2019)

OS: macOS Mojave 10.14.3

[mb21]

thx! yes, can reproduce with the --listings option...