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1. In the rejigging of the build system that eventually resulted in 7.1, the |
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line "#include <pcre.h>" was included in pcre_internal.h. The use of angle |
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brackets there is not right, since it causes compilers to look for an |
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installed pcre.h, not the version that is in the source that is being |
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compiled (which of course may be different). I have changed it back to: |
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#include "pcre.h" |
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I have a vague recollection that the change was concerned with compiling in |
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different directories, but in the new build system, that is taken care of |
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by the VPATH setting the Makefile. |
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2. The pattern .*$ when run in not-DOTALL UTF-8 mode with newline=any failed |
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when the subject happened to end in the byte 0x85 (e.g. if the last |
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character was \x{1ec5}). *Character* 0x85 is one of the "any" newline |
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characters but of course it shouldn't be taken as a newline when it is part |
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of another character. The bug was that, for an unlimited repeat of . in |
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not-DOTALL UTF-8 mode, PCRE was advancing by bytes rather than by |
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characters when looking for a newline. |
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3. A small performance improvement in the DOTALL UTF-8 mode .* case. |
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4. Debugging: adjusted the names of opcodes for different kinds of parentheses |
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in debug output. |
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5. Arrange to use "%I64d" instead of "%lld" and "%I64u" instead of "%llu" for |
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long printing in the pcrecpp unittest when running under MinGW. |
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6. ESC_K was left out of the EBCDIC table. |
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7. Change 7.0/38 introduced a new limit on the number of nested non-capturing |
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parentheses; I made it 1000, which seemed large enough. Unfortunately, the |
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limit also applies to "virtual nesting" when a pattern is recursive, and in |
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this case 1000 isn't so big. I have been able to remove this limit at the |
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expense of backing off one optimization in certain circumstances. Normally, |
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when pcre_exec() would call its internal match() function recursively and |
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immediately return the result unconditionally, it uses a "tail recursion" |
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feature to save stack. However, when a subpattern that can match an empty |
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string has an unlimited repetition quantifier, it no longer makes this |
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optimization. That gives it a stack frame in which to save the data for |
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checking that an empty string has been matched. Previously this was taken |
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from the 1000-entry workspace that had been reserved. So now there is no |
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explicit limit, but more stack is used. |
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8. Applied Daniel's patches to solve problems with the import/export magic |
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syntax that is required for Windows, and which was going wrong for the |
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pcreposix and pcrecpp parts of the library. These were overlooked when this |
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problem was solved for the main library. |
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9. There were some crude static tests to avoid integer overflow when computing |
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the size of patterns that contain repeated groups with explicit upper |
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limits. As the maximum quantifier is 65535, the maximum group length was |
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set at 30,000 so that the product of these two numbers did not overflow a |
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32-bit integer. However, it turns out that people want to use groups that |
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are longer than 30,000 bytes (though not repeat them that many times). |
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Change 7.0/17 (the refactoring of the way the pattern size is computed) has |
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made it possible to implement the integer overflow checks in a much more |
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dynamic way, which I have now done. The artificial limitation on group |
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length has been removed - we now have only the limit on the total length of |
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the compiled pattern, which depends on the LINK_SIZE setting. |
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10. Fixed a bug in the documentation for get/copy named substring when |
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duplicate names are permitted. If none of the named substrings are set, the |
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functions return PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING (7); the doc said they returned an |
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empty string. |
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11. Because Perl interprets \Q...\E at a high level, and ignores orphan \E |
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instances, patterns such as [\Q\E] or [\E] or even [^\E] cause an error, |
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because the ] is interpreted as the first data character and the |
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terminating ] is not found. PCRE has been made compatible with Perl in this |
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regard. Previously, it interpreted [\Q\E] as an empty class, and [\E] could |
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cause memory overwriting. |
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10. Like Perl, PCRE automatically breaks an unlimited repeat after an empty |
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string has been matched (to stop an infinite loop). It was not recognizing |
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a conditional subpattern that could match an empty string if that |
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subpattern was within another subpattern. For example, it looped when |
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trying to match (((?(1)X|))*) but it was OK with ((?(1)X|)*) where the |
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condition was not nested. This bug has been fixed. |
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12. A pattern like \X?\d or \P{L}?\d in non-UTF-8 mode could cause a backtrack |
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past the start of the subject in the presence of bytes with the top bit |
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set, for example "\x8aBCD". |
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13. Added Perl 5.10 experimental backtracking controls (*FAIL), (*F), (*PRUNE), |
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(*SKIP), (*THEN), (*COMMIT), and (*ACCEPT). |
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14. Optimized (?!) to (*FAIL). |
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15. Updated the test for a valid UTF-8 string to conform to the later RFC 3629. |
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This restricts code points to be within the range 0 to 0x10FFFF, excluding |
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the "low surrogate" sequence 0xD800 to 0xDFFF. Previously, PCRE allowed the |
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full range 0 to 0x7FFFFFFF, as defined by RFC 2279. Internally, it still |
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does: it's just the validity check that is more restrictive. |
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16. Inserted checks for integer overflows during escape sequence (backslash) |
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processing, and also fixed erroneous offset values for syntax errors during |
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backslash processing. |
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17. Fixed another case of looking too far back in non-UTF-8 mode (cf 12 above) |
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for patterns like [\PPP\x8a]{1,}\x80 with the subject "A\x80". |
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18. An unterminated class in a pattern like (?1)\c[ with a "forward reference" |
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caused an overrun. |
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19. A pattern like (?:[\PPa*]*){8,} which had an "extended class" (one with |
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something other than just ASCII characters) inside a group that had an |
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unlimited repeat caused a loop at compile time (while checking to see |
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whether the group could match an empty string). |
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20. Debugging a pattern containing \p or \P could cause a crash. For example, |
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[\P{Any}] did so. (Error in the code for printing property names.) |
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21. An orphan \E inside a character class could cause a crash. |
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22. A repeated capturing bracket such as (A)? could cause a wild memory |
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reference during compilation. |
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23. There are several functions in pcre_compile() that scan along a compiled |
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expression for various reasons (e.g. to see if it's fixed length for look |
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behind). There were bugs in these functions when a repeated \p or \P was |
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present in the pattern. These operators have additional parameters compared |
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with \d, etc, and these were not being taken into account when moving along |
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the compiled data. Specifically: |
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(a) A item such as \p{Yi}{3} in a lookbehind was not treated as fixed |
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length. |
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(b) An item such as \pL+ within a repeated group could cause crashes or |
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loops. |
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(c) A pattern such as \p{Yi}+(\P{Yi}+)(?1) could give an incorrect |
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"reference to non-existent subpattern" error. |
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24. A repeated \S or \W in UTF-8 mode could give wrong answers when multibyte |
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characters were involved (for example /\S{2}/8g with "A\x{a3}BC"). |
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Version 7.2 19-Jun-07 |
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1. If the fr_FR locale cannot be found for test 3, try the "french" locale, |
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which is apparently normally available under Windows. |
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2. Re-jig the pcregrep tests with different newline settings in an attempt |
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to make them independent of the local environment's newline setting. |
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3. Add code to configure.ac to remove -g from the CFLAGS default settings. |
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4. Some of the "internals" tests were previously cut out when the link size |
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was not 2, because the output contained actual offsets. The recent new |
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"Z" feature of pcretest means that these can be cut out, making the tests |
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usable with all link sizes. |
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5. Implemented Stan Switzer's goto replacement for longjmp() when not using |
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stack recursion. This gives a massive performance boost under BSD, but just |
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a small improvement under Linux. However, it saves one field in the frame |
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in all cases. |
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6. Added more features from the forthcoming Perl 5.10: |
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(a) (?-n) (where n is a string of digits) is a relative subroutine or |
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recursion call. It refers to the nth most recently opened parentheses. |
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(b) (?+n) is also a relative subroutine call; it refers to the nth next |
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to be opened parentheses. |
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(c) Conditions that refer to capturing parentheses can be specified |
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relatively, for example, (?(-2)... or (?(+3)... |
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(d) \K resets the start of the current match so that everything before |
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(e) \k{name} is synonymous with \k<name> and \k'name' (.NET compatible). |
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(f) \g{name} is another synonym - part of Perl 5.10's unification of |
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reference syntax. |
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(g) (?| introduces a group in which the numbering of parentheses in each |
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alternative starts with the same number. |
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(h) \h, \H, \v, and \V match horizontal and vertical whitespace. |
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7. Added two new calls to pcre_fullinfo(): PCRE_INFO_OKPARTIAL and |
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PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED. |
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8. A pattern such as (.*(.)?)* caused pcre_exec() to fail by either not |
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terminating or by crashing. Diagnosed by Viktor Griph; it was in the code |
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for detecting groups that can match an empty string. |
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9. A pattern with a very large number of alternatives (more than several |
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hundred) was running out of internal workspace during the pre-compile |
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phase, where pcre_compile() figures out how much memory will be needed. A |
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bit of new cunning has reduced the workspace needed for groups with |
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alternatives. The 1000-alternative test pattern now uses 12 bytes of |
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workspace instead of running out of the 4096 that are available. |
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10. Inserted some missing (unsigned int) casts to get rid of compiler warnings. |
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11. Applied patch from Google to remove an optimization that didn't quite work. |
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The report of the bug said: |
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pcrecpp::RE("a*").FullMatch("aaa") matches, while |
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pcrecpp::RE("a*?").FullMatch("aaa") does not, and |
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pcrecpp::RE("a*?\\z").FullMatch("aaa") does again. |
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12. If \p or \P was used in non-UTF-8 mode on a character greater than 127 |
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it matched the wrong number of bytes. |
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1. Applied Bob Rossi and Daniel G's patches to convert the build system to one |
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that is more "standard", making use of automake and other Autotools. There |
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is some re-arrangement of the files and adjustment of comments consequent |
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2. Part of the patch fixed a problem with the pcregrep tests. The test of -r |
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for recursive directory scanning broke on some systems because the files |
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are not scanned in any specific order and on different systems the order |
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was different. A call to "sort" has been inserted into RunGrepTest for the |
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approprate test as a short-term fix. In the longer term there may be an |
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alternative. |
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3. I had an email from Eric Raymond about problems translating some of PCRE's |
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man pages to HTML (despite the fact that I distribute HTML pages, some |
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people do their own conversions for various reasons). The problems |
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concerned the use of low-level troff macros .br and .in. I have therefore |
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removed all such uses from the man pages (some were redundant, some could |
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be replaced by .nf/.fi pairs). The 132html script that I use to generate |
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HTML has been updated to handle .nf/.fi and to complain if it encounters |
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.br or .in. |
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4. Updated comments in configure.ac that get placed in config.h.in and also |
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arranged for config.h to be included in the distribution, with the name |
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config.h.generic, for the benefit of those who have to compile without |
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5. Updated the support (such as it is) for Virtual Pascal, thanks to Stefan |
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Weber: (1) pcre_internal.h was missing some function renames; (2) updated |
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makevp.bat for the current PCRE, using the additional files |
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makevp_c.txt, makevp_l.txt, and pcregexp.pas. |
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6. A Windows user reported a minor discrepancy with test 2, which turned out |
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to be caused by a trailing space on an input line that had got lost in his |
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copy. The trailing space was an accident, so I've just removed it. |
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7. Add -Wl,-R... flags in pcre-config.in for *BSD* systems, as I'm told |
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that is needed. |
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8. Mark ucp_table (in ucptable.h) and ucp_gentype (in pcre_ucp_searchfuncs.c) |
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as "const" (a) because they are and (b) because it helps the PHP |
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maintainers who have recently made a script to detect big data structures |
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in the php code that should be moved to the .rodata section. I remembered |
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to update Builducptable as well, so it won't revert if ucptable.h is ever |
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re-created. |
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9. Added some extra #ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8 conditionals into pcretest.c, |
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pcre_printint.src, pcre_compile.c, pcre_study.c, and pcre_tables.c, in |
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order to be able to cut out the UTF-8 tables in the latter when UTF-8 |
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support is not required. This saves 1.5-2K of code, which is important in |
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some applications. |
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Later: more #ifdefs are needed in pcre_ord2utf8.c and pcre_valid_utf8.c |
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so as not to refer to the tables, even though these functions will never be |
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called when UTF-8 support is disabled. Otherwise there are problems with a |
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shared library. |
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10. Fixed two bugs in the emulated memmove() function in pcre_internal.h: |
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(a) It was defining its arguments as char * instead of void *. |
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(b) It was assuming that all moves were upwards in memory; this was true |
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a long time ago when I wrote it, but is no longer the case. |
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The emulated memove() is provided for those environments that have neither |
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memmove() nor bcopy(). I didn't think anyone used it these days, but that |
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is clearly not the case, as these two bugs were recently reported. |
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11. The script PrepareRelease is now distributed: it calls 132html, CleanTxt, |
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and Detrail to create the HTML documentation, the .txt form of the man |
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pages, and it removes trailing spaces from listed files. It also creates |
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pcre.h.generic and config.h.generic from pcre.h and config.h. In the latter |
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case, it wraps all the #defines with #ifndefs. This script should be run |
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before "make dist". |
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12. Fixed two fairly obscure bugs concerned with quantified caseless matching |
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with Unicode property support. |
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(a) For a maximizing quantifier, if the two different cases of the |
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character were of different lengths in their UTF-8 codings (there are |
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some cases like this - I found 11), and the matching function had to |
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back up over a mixture of the two cases, it incorrectly assumed they |
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were both the same length. |
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(b) When PCRE was configured to use the heap rather than the stack for |
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recursion during matching, it was not correctly preserving the data for |
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the other case of a UTF-8 character when checking ahead for a match |
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while processing a minimizing repeat. If the check also involved |
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matching a wide character, but failed, corruption could cause an |
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erroneous result when trying to check for a repeat of the original |
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character. |
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13. Some tidying changes to the testing mechanism: |
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(a) The RunTest script now detects the internal link size and whether there |
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is UTF-8 and UCP support by running ./pcretest -C instead of relying on |
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values substituted by "configure". (The RunGrepTest script already did |
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this for UTF-8.) The configure.ac script no longer substitutes the |
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relevant variables. |
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(b) The debugging options /B and /D in pcretest show the compiled bytecode |
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with length and offset values. This means that the output is different |
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for different internal link sizes. Test 2 is skipped for link sizes |
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other than 2 because of this, bypassing the problem. Unfortunately, |
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there was also a test in test 3 (the locale tests) that used /B and |
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failed for link sizes other than 2. Rather than cut the whole test out, |
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I have added a new /Z option to pcretest that replaces the length and |
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offset values with spaces. This is now used to make test 3 independent |
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of link size. (Test 2 will be tidied up later.) |
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14. If erroroffset was passed as NULL to pcre_compile, it provoked a |
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segmentation fault instead of returning the appropriate error message. |
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15. In multiline mode when the newline sequence was set to "any", the pattern |
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^$ would give a match between the \r and \n of a subject such as "A\r\nB". |
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This doesn't seem right; it now treats the CRLF combination as the line |
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ending, and so does not match in that case. It's only a pattern such as ^$ |
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that would hit this one: something like ^ABC$ would have failed after \r |
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and then tried again after \r\n. |
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16. Changed the comparison command for RunGrepTest from "diff -u" to "diff -ub" |
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in an attempt to make files that differ only in their line terminators |
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compare equal. This works on Linux. |
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17. Under certain error circumstances pcregrep might try to free random memory |
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as it exited. This is now fixed, thanks to valgrind. |
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19. In pcretest, if the pattern /(?m)^$/g<any> was matched against the string |
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"abc\r\n\r\n", it found an unwanted second match after the second \r. This |
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was because its rules for how to advance for /g after matching an empty |
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string at the end of a line did not allow for this case. They now check for |
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20. pcretest is supposed to handle patterns and data of any length, by |
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extending its buffers when necessary. It was getting this wrong when the |
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buffer for a data line had to be extended. |
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21. Added PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF which is like ANY, but matches only CR, LF, or |
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CRLF as a newline sequence. |
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22. Code for handling Unicode properties in pcre_dfa_exec() wasn't being cut |
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out by #ifdef SUPPORT_UCP. This did no harm, as it could never be used, but |
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I have nevertheless tidied it up. |
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23. Added some casts to kill warnings from HP-UX ia64 compiler. |
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24. Added a man page for pcre-config. |
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1. Fixed a signed/unsigned compiler warning in pcre_compile.c, shown up by |
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moving to gcc 4.1.1. |
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2. The -S option for pcretest uses setrlimit(); I had omitted to #include |
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sys/time.h, which is documented as needed for this function. It doesn't |
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3. It seems that there are systems where bytes whose values are greater than |
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127 match isprint() in the "C" locale. The "C" locale should be the |
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default when a C program starts up. In most systems, only ASCII printing |
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|
characters match isprint(). This difference caused the output from pcretest |
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|
to vary, making some of the tests fail. I have changed pcretest so that: |
383 |
|
|
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(a) When it is outputting text in the compiled version of a pattern, bytes |
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other than 32-126 are always shown as hex escapes. |
386 |
|
|
387 |
|
(b) When it is outputting text that is a matched part of a subject string, |
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it does the same, unless a different locale has been set for the match |
389 |
|
(using the /L modifier). In this case, it uses isprint() to decide. |
390 |
|
|
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4. Fixed a major bug that caused incorrect computation of the amount of memory |
392 |
|
required for a compiled pattern when options that changed within the |
393 |
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pattern affected the logic of the preliminary scan that determines the |
394 |
|
length. The relevant options are -x, and -i in UTF-8 mode. The result was |
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that the computed length was too small. The symptoms of this bug were |
396 |
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either the PCRE error "internal error: code overflow" from pcre_compile(), |
397 |
|
or a glibc crash with a message such as "pcretest: free(): invalid next |
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|
size (fast)". Examples of patterns that provoked this bug (shown in |
399 |
|
pcretest format) are: |
400 |
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|
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/(?-x: )/x |
402 |
|
/(?x)(?-x: \s*#\s*)/ |
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/((?i)[\x{c0}])/8 |
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/(?i:[\x{c0}])/8 |
405 |
|
|
406 |
|
HOWEVER: Change 17 below makes this fix obsolete as the memory computation |
407 |
|
is now done differently. |
408 |
|
|
409 |
|
5. Applied patches from Google to: (a) add a QuoteMeta function to the C++ |
410 |
|
wrapper classes; (b) implement a new function in the C++ scanner that is |
411 |
|
more efficient than the old way of doing things because it avoids levels of |
412 |
|
recursion in the regex matching; (c) add a paragraph to the documentation |
413 |
|
for the FullMatch() function. |
414 |
|
|
415 |
|
6. The escape sequence \n was being treated as whatever was defined as |
416 |
|
"newline". Not only was this contrary to the documentation, which states |
417 |
|
that \n is character 10 (hex 0A), but it also went horribly wrong when |
418 |
|
"newline" was defined as CRLF. This has been fixed. |
419 |
|
|
420 |
|
7. In pcre_dfa_exec.c the value of an unsigned integer (the variable called c) |
421 |
|
was being set to -1 for the "end of line" case (supposedly a value that no |
422 |
|
character can have). Though this value is never used (the check for end of |
423 |
|
line is "zero bytes in current character"), it caused compiler complaints. |
424 |
|
I've changed it to 0xffffffff. |
425 |
|
|
426 |
|
8. In pcre_version.c, the version string was being built by a sequence of |
427 |
|
C macros that, in the event of PCRE_PRERELEASE being defined as an empty |
428 |
|
string (as it is for production releases) called a macro with an empty |
429 |
|
argument. The C standard says the result of this is undefined. The gcc |
430 |
|
compiler treats it as an empty string (which was what was wanted) but it is |
431 |
|
reported that Visual C gives an error. The source has been hacked around to |
432 |
|
avoid this problem. |
433 |
|
|
434 |
|
9. On the advice of a Windows user, included <io.h> and <fcntl.h> in Windows |
435 |
|
builds of pcretest, and changed the call to _setmode() to use _O_BINARY |
436 |
|
instead of 0x8000. Made all the #ifdefs test both _WIN32 and WIN32 (not all |
437 |
|
of them did). |
438 |
|
|
439 |
|
10. Originally, pcretest opened its input and output without "b"; then I was |
440 |
|
told that "b" was needed in some environments, so it was added for release |
441 |
|
5.0 to both the input and output. (It makes no difference on Unix-like |
442 |
|
systems.) Later I was told that it is wrong for the input on Windows. I've |
443 |
|
now abstracted the modes into two macros, to make it easier to fiddle with |
444 |
|
them, and removed "b" from the input mode under Windows. |
445 |
|
|
446 |
|
11. Added pkgconfig support for the C++ wrapper library, libpcrecpp. |
447 |
|
|
448 |
|
12. Added -help and --help to pcretest as an official way of being reminded |
449 |
|
of the options. |
450 |
|
|
451 |
|
13. Removed some redundant semicolons after macro calls in pcrecpparg.h.in |
452 |
|
and pcrecpp.cc because they annoy compilers at high warning levels. |
453 |
|
|
454 |
|
14. A bit of tidying/refactoring in pcre_exec.c in the main bumpalong loop. |
455 |
|
|
456 |
|
15. Fixed an occurrence of == in configure.ac that should have been = (shell |
457 |
|
scripts are not C programs :-) and which was not noticed because it works |
458 |
|
on Linux. |
459 |
|
|
460 |
|
16. pcretest is supposed to handle any length of pattern and data line (as one |
461 |
|
line or as a continued sequence of lines) by extending its input buffer if |
462 |
|
necessary. This feature was broken for very long pattern lines, leading to |
463 |
|
a string of junk being passed to pcre_compile() if the pattern was longer |
464 |
|
than about 50K. |
465 |
|
|
466 |
|
17. I have done a major re-factoring of the way pcre_compile() computes the |
467 |
|
amount of memory needed for a compiled pattern. Previously, there was code |
468 |
|
that made a preliminary scan of the pattern in order to do this. That was |
469 |
|
OK when PCRE was new, but as the facilities have expanded, it has become |
470 |
|
harder and harder to keep it in step with the real compile phase, and there |
471 |
|
have been a number of bugs (see for example, 4 above). I have now found a |
472 |
|
cunning way of running the real compile function in a "fake" mode that |
473 |
|
enables it to compute how much memory it would need, while actually only |
474 |
|
ever using a few hundred bytes of working memory and without too many |
475 |
|
tests of the mode. This should make future maintenance and development |
476 |
|
easier. A side effect of this work is that the limit of 200 on the nesting |
477 |
|
depth of parentheses has been removed (though this was never a serious |
478 |
|
limitation, I suspect). However, there is a downside: pcre_compile() now |
479 |
|
runs more slowly than before (30% or more, depending on the pattern). I |
480 |
|
hope this isn't a big issue. There is no effect on runtime performance. |
481 |
|
|
482 |
|
18. Fixed a minor bug in pcretest: if a pattern line was not terminated by a |
483 |
|
newline (only possible for the last line of a file) and it was a |
484 |
|
pattern that set a locale (followed by /Lsomething), pcretest crashed. |
485 |
|
|
486 |
|
19. Added additional timing features to pcretest. (1) The -tm option now times |
487 |
|
matching only, not compiling. (2) Both -t and -tm can be followed, as a |
488 |
|
separate command line item, by a number that specifies the number of |
489 |
|
repeats to use when timing. The default is 50000; this gives better |
490 |
|
precision, but takes uncomfortably long for very large patterns. |
491 |
|
|
492 |
|
20. Extended pcre_study() to be more clever in cases where a branch of a |
493 |
|
subpattern has no definite first character. For example, (a*|b*)[cd] would |
494 |
|
previously give no result from pcre_study(). Now it recognizes that the |
495 |
|
first character must be a, b, c, or d. |
496 |
|
|
497 |
|
21. There was an incorrect error "recursive call could loop indefinitely" if |
498 |
|
a subpattern (or the entire pattern) that was being tested for matching an |
499 |
|
empty string contained only one non-empty item after a nested subpattern. |
500 |
|
For example, the pattern (?>\x{100}*)\d(?R) provoked this error |
501 |
|
incorrectly, because the \d was being skipped in the check. |
502 |
|
|
503 |
|
22. The pcretest program now has a new pattern option /B and a command line |
504 |
|
option -b, which is equivalent to adding /B to every pattern. This causes |
505 |
|
it to show the compiled bytecode, without the additional information that |
506 |
|
-d shows. The effect of -d is now the same as -b with -i (and similarly, /D |
507 |
|
is the same as /B/I). |
508 |
|
|
509 |
|
23. A new optimization is now able automatically to treat some sequences such |
510 |
|
as a*b as a*+b. More specifically, if something simple (such as a character |
511 |
|
or a simple class like \d) has an unlimited quantifier, and is followed by |
512 |
|
something that cannot possibly match the quantified thing, the quantifier |
513 |
|
is automatically "possessified". |
514 |
|
|
515 |
|
24. A recursive reference to a subpattern whose number was greater than 39 |
516 |
|
went wrong under certain circumstances in UTF-8 mode. This bug could also |
517 |
|
have affected the operation of pcre_study(). |
518 |
|
|
519 |
|
25. Realized that a little bit of performance could be had by replacing |
520 |
|
(c & 0xc0) == 0xc0 with c >= 0xc0 when processing UTF-8 characters. |
521 |
|
|
522 |
|
26. Timing data from pcretest is now shown to 4 decimal places instead of 3. |
523 |
|
|
524 |
|
27. Possessive quantifiers such as a++ were previously implemented by turning |
525 |
|
them into atomic groups such as ($>a+). Now they have their own opcodes, |
526 |
|
which improves performance. This includes the automatically created ones |
527 |
|
from 23 above. |
528 |
|
|
529 |
|
28. A pattern such as (?=(\w+))\1: which simulates an atomic group using a |
530 |
|
lookahead was broken if it was not anchored. PCRE was mistakenly expecting |
531 |
|
the first matched character to be a colon. This applied both to named and |
532 |
|
numbered groups. |
533 |
|
|
534 |
|
29. The ucpinternal.h header file was missing its idempotency #ifdef. |
535 |
|
|
536 |
|
30. I was sent a "project" file called libpcre.a.dev which I understand makes |
537 |
|
building PCRE on Windows easier, so I have included it in the distribution. |
538 |
|
|
539 |
|
31. There is now a check in pcretest against a ridiculously large number being |
540 |
|
returned by pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec(). If this happens in a /g or /G |
541 |
|
loop, the loop is abandoned. |
542 |
|
|
543 |
|
32. Forward references to subpatterns in conditions such as (?(2)...) where |
544 |
|
subpattern 2 is defined later cause pcre_compile() to search forwards in |
545 |
|
the pattern for the relevant set of parentheses. This search went wrong |
546 |
|
when there were unescaped parentheses in a character class, parentheses |
547 |
|
escaped with \Q...\E, or parentheses in a #-comment in /x mode. |
548 |
|
|
549 |
|
33. "Subroutine" calls and backreferences were previously restricted to |
550 |
|
referencing subpatterns earlier in the regex. This restriction has now |
551 |
|
been removed. |
552 |
|
|
553 |
|
34. Added a number of extra features that are going to be in Perl 5.10. On the |
554 |
|
whole, these are just syntactic alternatives for features that PCRE had |
555 |
|
previously implemented using the Python syntax or my own invention. The |
556 |
|
other formats are all retained for compatibility. |
557 |
|
|
558 |
|
(a) Named groups can now be defined as (?<name>...) or (?'name'...) as well |
559 |
|
as (?P<name>...). The new forms, as well as being in Perl 5.10, are |
560 |
|
also .NET compatible. |
561 |
|
|
562 |
|
(b) A recursion or subroutine call to a named group can now be defined as |
563 |
|
(?&name) as well as (?P>name). |
564 |
|
|
565 |
|
(c) A backreference to a named group can now be defined as \k<name> or |
566 |
|
\k'name' as well as (?P=name). The new forms, as well as being in Perl |
567 |
|
5.10, are also .NET compatible. |
568 |
|
|
569 |
|
(d) A conditional reference to a named group can now use the syntax |
570 |
|
(?(<name>) or (?('name') as well as (?(name). |
571 |
|
|
572 |
|
(e) A "conditional group" of the form (?(DEFINE)...) can be used to define |
573 |
|
groups (named and numbered) that are never evaluated inline, but can be |
574 |
|
called as "subroutines" from elsewhere. In effect, the DEFINE condition |
575 |
|
is always false. There may be only one alternative in such a group. |
576 |
|
|
577 |
|
(f) A test for recursion can be given as (?(R1).. or (?(R&name)... as well |
578 |
|
as the simple (?(R). The condition is true only if the most recent |
579 |
|
recursion is that of the given number or name. It does not search out |
580 |
|
through the entire recursion stack. |
581 |
|
|
582 |
|
(g) The escape \gN or \g{N} has been added, where N is a positive or |
583 |
|
negative number, specifying an absolute or relative reference. |
584 |
|
|
585 |
|
35. Tidied to get rid of some further signed/unsigned compiler warnings and |
586 |
|
some "unreachable code" warnings. |
587 |
|
|
588 |
|
36. Updated the Unicode property tables to Unicode version 5.0.0. Amongst other |
589 |
|
things, this adds five new scripts. |
590 |
|
|
591 |
|
37. Perl ignores orphaned \E escapes completely. PCRE now does the same. |
592 |
|
There were also incompatibilities regarding the handling of \Q..\E inside |
593 |
|
character classes, for example with patterns like [\Qa\E-\Qz\E] where the |
594 |
|
hyphen was adjacent to \Q or \E. I hope I've cleared all this up now. |
595 |
|
|
596 |
|
38. Like Perl, PCRE detects when an indefinitely repeated parenthesized group |
597 |
|
matches an empty string, and forcibly breaks the loop. There were bugs in |
598 |
|
this code in non-simple cases. For a pattern such as ^(a()*)* matched |
599 |
|
against aaaa the result was just "a" rather than "aaaa", for example. Two |
600 |
|
separate and independent bugs (that affected different cases) have been |
601 |
|
fixed. |
602 |
|
|
603 |
|
39. Refactored the code to abolish the use of different opcodes for small |
604 |
|
capturing bracket numbers. This is a tidy that I avoided doing when I |
605 |
|
removed the limit on the number of capturing brackets for 3.5 back in 2001. |
606 |
|
The new approach is not only tidier, it makes it possible to reduce the |
607 |
|
memory needed to fix the previous bug (38). |
608 |
|
|
609 |
|
40. Implemented PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY to recognize any of the Unicode newline |
610 |
|
sequences (http://unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/) as "newline" when |
611 |
|
processing dot, circumflex, or dollar metacharacters, or #-comments in /x |
612 |
|
mode. |
613 |
|
|
614 |
|
41. Add \R to match any Unicode newline sequence, as suggested in the Unicode |
615 |
|
report. |
616 |
|
|
617 |
|
42. Applied patch, originally from Ari Pollak, modified by Google, to allow |
618 |
|
copy construction and assignment in the C++ wrapper. |
619 |
|
|
620 |
|
43. Updated pcregrep to support "--newline=any". In the process, I fixed a |
621 |
|
couple of bugs that could have given wrong results in the "--newline=crlf" |
622 |
|
case. |
623 |
|
|
624 |
|
44. Added a number of casts and did some reorganization of signed/unsigned int |
625 |
|
variables following suggestions from Dair Grant. Also renamed the variable |
626 |
|
"this" as "item" because it is a C++ keyword. |
627 |
|
|
628 |
|
45. Arranged for dftables to add |
629 |
|
|
630 |
|
#include "pcre_internal.h" |
631 |
|
|
632 |
|
to pcre_chartables.c because without it, gcc 4.x may remove the array |
633 |
|
definition from the final binary if PCRE is built into a static library and |
634 |
|
dead code stripping is activated. |
635 |
|
|
636 |
|
46. For an unanchored pattern, if a match attempt fails at the start of a |
637 |
|
newline sequence, and the newline setting is CRLF or ANY, and the next two |
638 |
|
characters are CRLF, advance by two characters instead of one. |
639 |
|
|
640 |
|
|
641 |
|
Version 6.7 04-Jul-06 |
642 |
|
--------------------- |
643 |
|
|
644 |
|
1. In order to handle tests when input lines are enormously long, pcretest has |
645 |
|
been re-factored so that it automatically extends its buffers when |
646 |
|
necessary. The code is crude, but this _is_ just a test program. The |
647 |
|
default size has been increased from 32K to 50K. |
648 |
|
|
649 |
|
2. The code in pcre_study() was using the value of the re argument before |
650 |
|
testing it for NULL. (Of course, in any sensible call of the function, it |
651 |
|
won't be NULL.) |
652 |
|
|
653 |
|
3. The memmove() emulation function in pcre_internal.h, which is used on |
654 |
|
systems that lack both memmove() and bcopy() - that is, hardly ever - |
655 |
|
was missing a "static" storage class specifier. |
656 |
|
|
657 |
|
4. When UTF-8 mode was not set, PCRE looped when compiling certain patterns |
658 |
|
containing an extended class (one that cannot be represented by a bitmap |
659 |
|
because it contains high-valued characters or Unicode property items, e.g. |
660 |
|
[\pZ]). Almost always one would set UTF-8 mode when processing such a |
661 |
|
pattern, but PCRE should not loop if you do not (it no longer does). |
662 |
|
[Detail: two cases were found: (a) a repeated subpattern containing an |
663 |
|
extended class; (b) a recursive reference to a subpattern that followed a |
664 |
|
previous extended class. It wasn't skipping over the extended class |
665 |
|
correctly when UTF-8 mode was not set.] |
666 |
|
|
667 |
|
5. A negated single-character class was not being recognized as fixed-length |
668 |
|
in lookbehind assertions such as (?<=[^f]), leading to an incorrect |
669 |
|
compile error "lookbehind assertion is not fixed length". |
670 |
|
|
671 |
|
6. The RunPerlTest auxiliary script was showing an unexpected difference |
672 |
|
between PCRE and Perl for UTF-8 tests. It turns out that it is hard to |
673 |
|
write a Perl script that can interpret lines of an input file either as |
674 |
|
byte characters or as UTF-8, which is what "perltest" was being required to |
675 |
|
do for the non-UTF-8 and UTF-8 tests, respectively. Essentially what you |
676 |
|
can't do is switch easily at run time between having the "use utf8;" pragma |
677 |
|
or not. In the end, I fudged it by using the RunPerlTest script to insert |
678 |
|
"use utf8;" explicitly for the UTF-8 tests. |
679 |
|
|
680 |
|
7. In multiline (/m) mode, PCRE was matching ^ after a terminating newline at |
681 |
|
the end of the subject string, contrary to the documentation and to what |
682 |
|
Perl does. This was true of both matching functions. Now it matches only at |
683 |
|
the start of the subject and immediately after *internal* newlines. |
684 |
|
|
685 |
|
8. A call of pcre_fullinfo() from pcretest to get the option bits was passing |
686 |
|
a pointer to an int instead of a pointer to an unsigned long int. This |
687 |
|
caused problems on 64-bit systems. |
688 |
|
|
689 |
|
9. Applied a patch from the folks at Google to pcrecpp.cc, to fix "another |
690 |
|
instance of the 'standard' template library not being so standard". |
691 |
|
|
692 |
|
10. There was no check on the number of named subpatterns nor the maximum |
693 |
|
length of a subpattern name. The product of these values is used to compute |
694 |
|
the size of the memory block for a compiled pattern. By supplying a very |
695 |
|
long subpattern name and a large number of named subpatterns, the size |
696 |
|
computation could be caused to overflow. This is now prevented by limiting |
697 |
|
the length of names to 32 characters, and the number of named subpatterns |
698 |
|
to 10,000. |
699 |
|
|
700 |
|
11. Subpatterns that are repeated with specific counts have to be replicated in |
701 |
|
the compiled pattern. The size of memory for this was computed from the |
702 |
|
length of the subpattern and the repeat count. The latter is limited to |
703 |
|
65535, but there was no limit on the former, meaning that integer overflow |
704 |
|
could in principle occur. The compiled length of a repeated subpattern is |
705 |
|
now limited to 30,000 bytes in order to prevent this. |
706 |
|
|
707 |
|
12. Added the optional facility to have named substrings with the same name. |
708 |
|
|
709 |
|
13. Added the ability to use a named substring as a condition, using the |
710 |
|
Python syntax: (?(name)yes|no). This overloads (?(R)... and names that |
711 |
|
are numbers (not recommended). Forward references are permitted. |
712 |
|
|
713 |
|
14. Added forward references in named backreferences (if you see what I mean). |
714 |
|
|
715 |
|
15. In UTF-8 mode, with the PCRE_DOTALL option set, a quantified dot in the |
716 |
|
pattern could run off the end of the subject. For example, the pattern |
717 |
|
"(?s)(.{1,5})"8 did this with the subject "ab". |
718 |
|
|
719 |
|
16. If PCRE_DOTALL or PCRE_MULTILINE were set, pcre_dfa_exec() behaved as if |
720 |
|
PCRE_CASELESS was set when matching characters that were quantified with ? |
721 |
|
or *. |
722 |
|
|
723 |
|
17. A character class other than a single negated character that had a minimum |
724 |
|
but no maximum quantifier - for example [ab]{6,} - was not handled |
725 |
|
correctly by pce_dfa_exec(). It would match only one character. |
726 |
|
|
727 |
|
18. A valid (though odd) pattern that looked like a POSIX character |
728 |
|
class but used an invalid character after [ (for example [[,abc,]]) caused |
729 |
|
pcre_compile() to give the error "Failed: internal error: code overflow" or |
730 |
|
in some cases to crash with a glibc free() error. This could even happen if |
731 |
|
the pattern terminated after [[ but there just happened to be a sequence of |
732 |
|
letters, a binary zero, and a closing ] in the memory that followed. |
733 |
|
|
734 |
|
19. Perl's treatment of octal escapes in the range \400 to \777 has changed |
735 |
|
over the years. Originally (before any Unicode support), just the bottom 8 |
736 |
|
bits were taken. Thus, for example, \500 really meant \100. Nowadays the |
737 |
|
output from "man perlunicode" includes this: |
738 |
|
|
739 |
|
The regular expression compiler produces polymorphic opcodes. That |
740 |
|
is, the pattern adapts to the data and automatically switches to |
741 |
|
the Unicode character scheme when presented with Unicode data--or |
742 |
|
instead uses a traditional byte scheme when presented with byte |
743 |
|
data. |
744 |
|
|
745 |
|
Sadly, a wide octal escape does not cause a switch, and in a string with |
746 |
|
no other multibyte characters, these octal escapes are treated as before. |
747 |
|
Thus, in Perl, the pattern /\500/ actually matches \100 but the pattern |
748 |
|
/\500|\x{1ff}/ matches \500 or \777 because the whole thing is treated as a |
749 |
|
Unicode string. |
750 |
|
|
751 |
|
I have not perpetrated such confusion in PCRE. Up till now, it took just |
752 |
|
the bottom 8 bits, as in old Perl. I have now made octal escapes with |
753 |
|
values greater than \377 illegal in non-UTF-8 mode. In UTF-8 mode they |
754 |
|
translate to the appropriate multibyte character. |
755 |
|
|
756 |
|
29. Applied some refactoring to reduce the number of warnings from Microsoft |
757 |
|
and Borland compilers. This has included removing the fudge introduced |
758 |
|
seven years ago for the OS/2 compiler (see 2.02/2 below) because it caused |
759 |
|
a warning about an unused variable. |
760 |
|
|
761 |
|
21. PCRE has not included VT (character 0x0b) in the set of whitespace |
762 |
|
characters since release 4.0, because Perl (from release 5.004) does not. |
763 |
|
[Or at least, is documented not to: some releases seem to be in conflict |
764 |
|
with the documentation.] However, when a pattern was studied with |
765 |
|
pcre_study() and all its branches started with \s, PCRE still included VT |
766 |
|
as a possible starting character. Of course, this did no harm; it just |
767 |
|
caused an unnecessary match attempt. |
768 |
|
|
769 |
|
22. Removed a now-redundant internal flag bit that recorded the fact that case |
770 |
|
dependency changed within the pattern. This was once needed for "required |
771 |
|
byte" processing, but is no longer used. This recovers a now-scarce options |
772 |
|
bit. Also moved the least significant internal flag bit to the most- |
773 |
|
significant bit of the word, which was not previously used (hangover from |
774 |
|
the days when it was an int rather than a uint) to free up another bit for |
775 |
|
the future. |
776 |
|
|
777 |
|
23. Added support for CRLF line endings as well as CR and LF. As well as the |
778 |
|
default being selectable at build time, it can now be changed at runtime |
779 |
|
via the PCRE_NEWLINE_xxx flags. There are now options for pcregrep to |
780 |
|
specify that it is scanning data with non-default line endings. |
781 |
|
|
782 |
|
24. Changed the definition of CXXLINK to make it agree with the definition of |
783 |
|
LINK in the Makefile, by replacing LDFLAGS to CXXFLAGS. |
784 |
|
|
785 |
|
25. Applied Ian Taylor's patches to avoid using another stack frame for tail |
786 |
|
recursions. This makes a big different to stack usage for some patterns. |
787 |
|
|
788 |
|
26. If a subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference such |
789 |
|
as (?P>B) was quantified, for example (xxx(?P>B)){3}, the calculation of |
790 |
|
the space required for the compiled pattern went wrong and gave too small a |
791 |
|
value. Depending on the environment, this could lead to "Failed: internal |
792 |
|
error: code overflow at offset 49" or "glibc detected double free or |
793 |
|
corruption" errors. |
794 |
|
|
795 |
|
27. Applied patches from Google (a) to support the new newline modes and (b) to |
796 |
|
advance over multibyte UTF-8 characters in GlobalReplace. |
797 |
|
|
798 |
|
28. Change free() to pcre_free() in pcredemo.c. Apparently this makes a |
799 |
|
difference for some implementation of PCRE in some Windows version. |
800 |
|
|
801 |
|
29. Added some extra testing facilities to pcretest: |
802 |
|
|
803 |
|
\q<number> in a data line sets the "match limit" value |
804 |
|
\Q<number> in a data line sets the "match recursion limt" value |
805 |
|
-S <number> sets the stack size, where <number> is in megabytes |
806 |
|
|
807 |
|
The -S option isn't available for Windows. |
808 |
|
|
809 |
|
|
810 |
|
Version 6.6 06-Feb-06 |
811 |
|
--------------------- |
812 |
|
|
813 |
|
1. Change 16(a) for 6.5 broke things, because PCRE_DATA_SCOPE was not defined |
814 |
|
in pcreposix.h. I have copied the definition from pcre.h. |
815 |
|
|
816 |
|
2. Change 25 for 6.5 broke compilation in a build directory out-of-tree |
817 |
|
because pcre.h is no longer a built file. |
818 |
|
|
819 |
|
3. Added Jeff Friedl's additional debugging patches to pcregrep. These are |
820 |
|
not normally included in the compiled code. |
821 |
|
|
822 |
|
|
823 |
|
Version 6.5 01-Feb-06 |
824 |
|
--------------------- |
825 |
|
|
826 |
|
1. When using the partial match feature with pcre_dfa_exec(), it was not |
827 |
|
anchoring the second and subsequent partial matches at the new starting |
828 |
|
point. This could lead to incorrect results. For example, with the pattern |
829 |
|
/1234/, partially matching against "123" and then "a4" gave a match. |
830 |
|
|
831 |
|
2. Changes to pcregrep: |
832 |
|
|
833 |
|
(a) All non-match returns from pcre_exec() were being treated as failures |
834 |
|
to match the line. Now, unless the error is PCRE_ERROR_NOMATCH, an |
835 |
|
error message is output. Some extra information is given for the |
836 |
|
PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT and PCRE_ERROR_RECURSIONLIMIT errors, which are |
837 |
|
probably the only errors that are likely to be caused by users (by |
838 |
|
specifying a regex that has nested indefinite repeats, for instance). |
839 |
|
If there are more than 20 of these errors, pcregrep is abandoned. |
840 |
|
|
841 |
|
(b) A binary zero was treated as data while matching, but terminated the |
842 |
|
output line if it was written out. This has been fixed: binary zeroes |
843 |
|
are now no different to any other data bytes. |
844 |
|
|
845 |
|
(c) Whichever of the LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE environment variables is set is |
846 |
|
used to set a locale for matching. The --locale=xxxx long option has |
847 |
|
been added (no short equivalent) to specify a locale explicitly on the |
848 |
|
pcregrep command, overriding the environment variables. |
849 |
|
|
850 |
|
(d) When -B was used with -n, some line numbers in the output were one less |
851 |
|
than they should have been. |
852 |
|
|
853 |
|
(e) Added the -o (--only-matching) option. |
854 |
|
|
855 |
|
(f) If -A or -C was used with -c (count only), some lines of context were |
856 |
|
accidentally printed for the final match. |
857 |
|
|
858 |
|
(g) Added the -H (--with-filename) option. |
859 |
|
|
860 |
|
(h) The combination of options -rh failed to suppress file names for files |
861 |
|
that were found from directory arguments. |
862 |
|
|
863 |
|
(i) Added the -D (--devices) and -d (--directories) options. |
864 |
|
|
865 |
|
(j) Added the -F (--fixed-strings) option. |
866 |
|
|
867 |
|
(k) Allow "-" to be used as a file name for -f as well as for a data file. |
868 |
|
|
869 |
|
(l) Added the --colo(u)r option. |
870 |
|
|
871 |
|
(m) Added Jeffrey Friedl's -S testing option, but within #ifdefs so that it |
872 |
|
is not present by default. |
873 |
|
|
874 |
|
3. A nasty bug was discovered in the handling of recursive patterns, that is, |
875 |
|
items such as (?R) or (?1), when the recursion could match a number of |
876 |
|
alternatives. If it matched one of the alternatives, but subsequently, |
877 |
|
outside the recursion, there was a failure, the code tried to back up into |
878 |
|
the recursion. However, because of the way PCRE is implemented, this is not |
879 |
|
possible, and the result was an incorrect result from the match. |
880 |
|
|
881 |
|
In order to prevent this happening, the specification of recursion has |
882 |
|
been changed so that all such subpatterns are automatically treated as |
883 |
|
atomic groups. Thus, for example, (?R) is treated as if it were (?>(?R)). |
884 |
|
|
885 |
|
4. I had overlooked the fact that, in some locales, there are characters for |
886 |
|
which isalpha() is true but neither isupper() nor islower() are true. In |
887 |
|
the fr_FR locale, for instance, the \xAA and \xBA characters (ordmasculine |
888 |
|
and ordfeminine) are like this. This affected the treatment of \w and \W |
889 |
|
when they appeared in character classes, but not when they appeared outside |
890 |
|
a character class. The bit map for "word" characters is now created |
891 |
|
separately from the results of isalnum() instead of just taking it from the |
892 |
|
upper, lower, and digit maps. (Plus the underscore character, of course.) |
893 |
|
|
894 |
|
5. The above bug also affected the handling of POSIX character classes such as |
895 |
|
[[:alpha:]] and [[:alnum:]]. These do not have their own bit maps in PCRE's |
896 |
|
permanent tables. Instead, the bit maps for such a class were previously |
897 |
|
created as the appropriate unions of the upper, lower, and digit bitmaps. |
898 |
|
Now they are created by subtraction from the [[:word:]] class, which has |
899 |
|
its own bitmap. |
900 |
|
|
901 |
|
6. The [[:blank:]] character class matches horizontal, but not vertical space. |
902 |
|
It is created by subtracting the vertical space characters (\x09, \x0a, |
903 |
|
\x0b, \x0c) from the [[:space:]] bitmap. Previously, however, the |
904 |
|
subtraction was done in the overall bitmap for a character class, meaning |
905 |
|
that a class such as [\x0c[:blank:]] was incorrect because \x0c would not |
906 |
|
be recognized. This bug has been fixed. |
907 |
|
|
908 |
|
7. Patches from the folks at Google: |
909 |
|
|
910 |
|
(a) pcrecpp.cc: "to handle a corner case that may or may not happen in |
911 |
|
real life, but is still worth protecting against". |
912 |
|
|
913 |
|
(b) pcrecpp.cc: "corrects a bug when negative radixes are used with |
914 |
|
regular expressions". |
915 |
|
|
916 |
|
(c) pcre_scanner.cc: avoid use of std::count() because not all systems |
917 |
|
have it. |
918 |
|
|
919 |
|
(d) Split off pcrecpparg.h from pcrecpp.h and had the former built by |
920 |
|
"configure" and the latter not, in order to fix a problem somebody had |
921 |
|
with compiling the Arg class on HP-UX. |
922 |
|
|
923 |
|
(e) Improve the error-handling of the C++ wrapper a little bit. |
924 |
|
|
925 |
|
(f) New tests for checking recursion limiting. |
926 |
|
|
927 |
|
8. The pcre_memmove() function, which is used only if the environment does not |
928 |
|
have a standard memmove() function (and is therefore rarely compiled), |
929 |
|
contained two bugs: (a) use of int instead of size_t, and (b) it was not |
930 |
|
returning a result (though PCRE never actually uses the result). |
931 |
|
|
932 |
|
9. In the POSIX regexec() interface, if nmatch is specified as a ridiculously |
933 |
|
large number - greater than INT_MAX/(3*sizeof(int)) - REG_ESPACE is |
934 |
|
returned instead of calling malloc() with an overflowing number that would |
935 |
|
most likely cause subsequent chaos. |
936 |
|
|
937 |
|
10. The debugging option of pcretest was not showing the NO_AUTO_CAPTURE flag. |
938 |
|
|
939 |
|
11. The POSIX flag REG_NOSUB is now supported. When a pattern that was compiled |
940 |
|
with this option is matched, the nmatch and pmatch options of regexec() are |
941 |
|
ignored. |
942 |
|
|
943 |
|
12. Added REG_UTF8 to the POSIX interface. This is not defined by POSIX, but is |
944 |
|
provided in case anyone wants to the the POSIX interface with UTF-8 |
945 |
|
strings. |
946 |
|
|
947 |
|
13. Added CXXLDFLAGS to the Makefile parameters to provide settings only on the |
948 |
|
C++ linking (needed for some HP-UX environments). |
949 |
|
|
950 |
|
14. Avoid compiler warnings in get_ucpname() when compiled without UCP support |
951 |
|
(unused parameter) and in the pcre_printint() function (omitted "default" |
952 |
|
switch label when the default is to do nothing). |
953 |
|
|
954 |
|
15. Added some code to make it possible, when PCRE is compiled as a C++ |
955 |
|
library, to replace subject pointers for pcre_exec() with a smart pointer |
956 |
|
class, thus making it possible to process discontinuous strings. |
957 |
|
|
958 |
|
16. The two macros PCRE_EXPORT and PCRE_DATA_SCOPE are confusing, and perform |
959 |
|
much the same function. They were added by different people who were trying |
960 |
|
to make PCRE easy to compile on non-Unix systems. It has been suggested |
961 |
|
that PCRE_EXPORT be abolished now that there is more automatic apparatus |
962 |
|
for compiling on Windows systems. I have therefore replaced it with |
963 |
|
PCRE_DATA_SCOPE. This is set automatically for Windows; if not set it |
964 |
|
defaults to "extern" for C or "extern C" for C++, which works fine on |
965 |
|
Unix-like systems. It is now possible to override the value of PCRE_DATA_ |
966 |
|
SCOPE with something explicit in config.h. In addition: |
967 |
|
|
968 |
|
(a) pcreposix.h still had just "extern" instead of either of these macros; |
969 |
|
I have replaced it with PCRE_DATA_SCOPE. |
970 |
|
|
971 |
|
(b) Functions such as _pcre_xclass(), which are internal to the library, |
972 |
|
but external in the C sense, all had PCRE_EXPORT in their definitions. |
973 |
|
This is apparently wrong for the Windows case, so I have removed it. |
974 |
|
(It makes no difference on Unix-like systems.) |
975 |
|
|
976 |
|
17. Added a new limit, MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION, which limits the depth of nesting |
977 |
|
of recursive calls to match(). This is different to MATCH_LIMIT because |
978 |
|
that limits the total number of calls to match(), not all of which increase |
979 |
|
the depth of recursion. Limiting the recursion depth limits the amount of |
980 |
|
stack (or heap if NO_RECURSE is set) that is used. The default can be set |
981 |
|
when PCRE is compiled, and changed at run time. A patch from Google adds |
982 |
|
this functionality to the C++ interface. |
983 |
|
|
984 |
|
18. Changes to the handling of Unicode character properties: |
985 |
|
|
986 |
|
(a) Updated the table to Unicode 4.1.0. |
987 |
|
|
988 |
|
(b) Recognize characters that are not in the table as "Cn" (undefined). |
989 |
|
|
990 |
|
(c) I revised the way the table is implemented to a much improved format |
991 |
|
which includes recognition of ranges. It now supports the ranges that |
992 |
|
are defined in UnicodeData.txt, and it also amalgamates other |
993 |
|
characters into ranges. This has reduced the number of entries in the |
994 |
|
table from around 16,000 to around 3,000, thus reducing its size |
995 |
|
considerably. I realized I did not need to use a tree structure after |
996 |
|
all - a binary chop search is just as efficient. Having reduced the |
997 |
|
number of entries, I extended their size from 6 bytes to 8 bytes to |
998 |
|
allow for more data. |
999 |
|
|
1000 |
|
(d) Added support for Unicode script names via properties such as \p{Han}. |
1001 |
|
|
1002 |
|
19. In UTF-8 mode, a backslash followed by a non-Ascii character was not |
1003 |
|
matching that character. |
1004 |
|
|
1005 |
|
20. When matching a repeated Unicode property with a minimum greater than zero, |
1006 |
|
(for example \pL{2,}), PCRE could look past the end of the subject if it |
1007 |
|
reached it while seeking the minimum number of characters. This could |
1008 |
|
happen only if some of the characters were more than one byte long, because |
1009 |
|
there is a check for at least the minimum number of bytes. |
1010 |
|
|
1011 |
|
21. Refactored the implementation of \p and \P so as to be more general, to |
1012 |
|
allow for more different types of property in future. This has changed the |
1013 |
|
compiled form incompatibly. Anybody with saved compiled patterns that use |
1014 |
|
\p or \P will have to recompile them. |
1015 |
|
|
1016 |
|
22. Added "Any" and "L&" to the supported property types. |
1017 |
|
|
1018 |
|
23. Recognize \x{...} as a code point specifier, even when not in UTF-8 mode, |
1019 |
|
but give a compile time error if the value is greater than 0xff. |
1020 |
|
|
1021 |
|
24. The man pages for pcrepartial, pcreprecompile, and pcre_compile2 were |
1022 |
|
accidentally not being installed or uninstalled. |
1023 |
|
|
1024 |
|
25. The pcre.h file was built from pcre.h.in, but the only changes that were |
1025 |
|
made were to insert the current release number. This seemed silly, because |
1026 |
|
it made things harder for people building PCRE on systems that don't run |
1027 |
|
"configure". I have turned pcre.h into a distributed file, no longer built |
1028 |
|
by "configure", with the version identification directly included. There is |
1029 |
|
no longer a pcre.h.in file. |
1030 |
|
|
1031 |
|
However, this change necessitated a change to the pcre-config script as |
1032 |
|
well. It is built from pcre-config.in, and one of the substitutions was the |
1033 |
|
release number. I have updated configure.ac so that ./configure now finds |
1034 |
|
the release number by grepping pcre.h. |
1035 |
|
|
1036 |
|
26. Added the ability to run the tests under valgrind. |
1037 |
|
|
1038 |
|
|
1039 |
|
Version 6.4 05-Sep-05 |
1040 |
|
--------------------- |
1041 |
|
|
1042 |
|
1. Change 6.0/10/(l) to pcregrep introduced a bug that caused separator lines |
1043 |
|
"--" to be printed when multiple files were scanned, even when none of the |
1044 |
|
-A, -B, or -C options were used. This is not compatible with Gnu grep, so I |
1045 |
|
consider it to be a bug, and have restored the previous behaviour. |
1046 |
|
|
1047 |
|
2. A couple of code tidies to get rid of compiler warnings. |
1048 |
|
|
1049 |
|
3. The pcretest program used to cheat by referring to symbols in the library |
1050 |
|
whose names begin with _pcre_. These are internal symbols that are not |
1051 |
|
really supposed to be visible externally, and in some environments it is |
1052 |
|
possible to suppress them. The cheating is now confined to including |
1053 |
|
certain files from the library's source, which is a bit cleaner. |
1054 |
|
|
1055 |
|
4. Renamed pcre.in as pcre.h.in to go with pcrecpp.h.in; it also makes the |
1056 |
|
file's purpose clearer. |
1057 |
|
|
1058 |
|
5. Reorganized pcre_ucp_findchar(). |
1059 |
|
|
1060 |
|
|
1061 |
|
Version 6.3 15-Aug-05 |
1062 |
|
--------------------- |
1063 |
|
|
1064 |
|
1. The file libpcre.pc.in did not have general read permission in the tarball. |
1065 |
|
|
1066 |
|
2. There were some problems when building without C++ support: |
1067 |
|
|
1068 |
|
(a) If C++ support was not built, "make install" and "make test" still |
1069 |
|
tried to test it. |
1070 |
|
|
1071 |
|
(b) There were problems when the value of CXX was explicitly set. Some |
1072 |
|
changes have been made to try to fix these, and ... |
1073 |
|
|
1074 |
|
(c) --disable-cpp can now be used to explicitly disable C++ support. |
1075 |
|
|
1076 |
|
(d) The use of @CPP_OBJ@ directly caused a blank line preceded by a |
1077 |
|
backslash in a target when C++ was disabled. This confuses some |
1078 |
|
versions of "make", apparently. Using an intermediate variable solves |
1079 |
|
this. (Same for CPP_LOBJ.) |
1080 |
|
|
1081 |
|
3. $(LINK_FOR_BUILD) now includes $(CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) and $(LINK) |
1082 |
|
(non-Windows) now includes $(CFLAGS) because these flags are sometimes |
1083 |
|
necessary on certain architectures. |
1084 |
|
|
1085 |
|
4. Added a setting of -export-symbols-regex to the link command to remove |
1086 |
|
those symbols that are exported in the C sense, but actually are local |
1087 |
|
within the library, and not documented. Their names all begin with |
1088 |
|
"_pcre_". This is not a perfect job, because (a) we have to except some |
1089 |
|
symbols that pcretest ("illegally") uses, and (b) the facility isn't always |
1090 |
|
available (and never for static libraries). I have made a note to try to |
1091 |
|
find a way round (a) in the future. |
1092 |
|
|
1093 |
|
|
1094 |
|
Version 6.2 01-Aug-05 |
1095 |
|
--------------------- |
1096 |
|
|
1097 |
|
1. There was no test for integer overflow of quantifier values. A construction |
1098 |
|
such as {1111111111111111} would give undefined results. What is worse, if |
1099 |
|
a minimum quantifier for a parenthesized subpattern overflowed and became |
1100 |
|
negative, the calculation of the memory size went wrong. This could have |
1101 |
|
led to memory overwriting. |
1102 |
|
|
1103 |
|
2. Building PCRE using VPATH was broken. Hopefully it is now fixed. |
1104 |
|
|
1105 |
|
3. Added "b" to the 2nd argument of fopen() in dftables.c, for non-Unix-like |
1106 |
|
operating environments where this matters. |
1107 |
|
|
1108 |
|
4. Applied Giuseppe Maxia's patch to add additional features for controlling |
1109 |
|
PCRE options from within the C++ wrapper. |
1110 |
|
|
1111 |
|
5. Named capturing subpatterns were not being correctly counted when a pattern |
1112 |
|
was compiled. This caused two problems: (a) If there were more than 100 |
1113 |
|
such subpatterns, the calculation of the memory needed for the whole |
1114 |
|
compiled pattern went wrong, leading to an overflow error. (b) Numerical |
1115 |
|
back references of the form \12, where the number was greater than 9, were |
1116 |
|
not recognized as back references, even though there were sufficient |
1117 |
|
previous subpatterns. |
1118 |
|
|
1119 |
|
6. Two minor patches to pcrecpp.cc in order to allow it to compile on older |
1120 |
|
versions of gcc, e.g. 2.95.4. |
1121 |
|
|
1122 |
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|
1123 |
|
Version 6.1 21-Jun-05 |
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|
--------------------- |
1125 |
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|
1126 |
|
1. There was one reference to the variable "posix" in pcretest.c that was not |
1127 |
|
surrounded by "#if !defined NOPOSIX". |
1128 |
|
|
1129 |
|
2. Make it possible to compile pcretest without DFA support, UTF8 support, or |
1130 |
|
the cross-check on the old pcre_info() function, for the benefit of the |
1131 |
|
cut-down version of PCRE that is currently imported into Exim. |
1132 |
|
|
1133 |
|
3. A (silly) pattern starting with (?i)(?-i) caused an internal space |
1134 |
|
allocation error. I've done the easy fix, which wastes 2 bytes for sensible |
1135 |
|
patterns that start (?i) but I don't think that matters. The use of (?i) is |
1136 |
|
just an example; this all applies to the other options as well. |
1137 |
|
|
1138 |
|
4. Since libtool seems to echo the compile commands it is issuing, the output |
1139 |
|
from "make" can be reduced a bit by putting "@" in front of each libtool |
1140 |
|
compile command. |
1141 |
|
|
1142 |
|
5. Patch from the folks at Google for configure.in to be a bit more thorough |
1143 |
|
in checking for a suitable C++ installation before trying to compile the |
1144 |
|
C++ stuff. This should fix a reported problem when a compiler was present, |
1145 |
|
but no suitable headers. |
1146 |
|
|
1147 |
|
6. The man pages all had just "PCRE" as their title. I have changed them to |
1148 |
|
be the relevant file name. I have also arranged that these names are |
1149 |
|
retained in the file doc/pcre.txt, which is a concatenation in text format |
1150 |
|
of all the man pages except the little individual ones for each function. |
1151 |
|
|
1152 |
|
7. The NON-UNIX-USE file had not been updated for the different set of source |
1153 |
|
files that come with release 6. I also added a few comments about the C++ |
1154 |
|
wrapper. |
1155 |
|
|
1156 |
|
|
1157 |
|
Version 6.0 07-Jun-05 |
1158 |
|
--------------------- |
1159 |
|
|
1160 |
|
1. Some minor internal re-organization to help with my DFA experiments. |
1161 |
|
|
1162 |
|
2. Some missing #ifdef SUPPORT_UCP conditionals in pcretest and printint that |
1163 |
|
didn't matter for the library itself when fully configured, but did matter |
1164 |
|
when compiling without UCP support, or within Exim, where the ucp files are |
1165 |
|
not imported. |
1166 |
|
|
1167 |
|
3. Refactoring of the library code to split up the various functions into |
1168 |
|
different source modules. The addition of the new DFA matching code (see |
1169 |
|
below) to a single monolithic source would have made it really too |
1170 |
|
unwieldy, quite apart from causing all the code to be include in a |
1171 |
|
statically linked application, when only some functions are used. This is |
1172 |
|
relevant even without the DFA addition now that patterns can be compiled in |
1173 |
|
one application and matched in another. |
1174 |
|
|
1175 |
|
The downside of splitting up is that there have to be some external |
1176 |
|
functions and data tables that are used internally in different modules of |
1177 |
|
the library but which are not part of the API. These have all had their |
1178 |
|
names changed to start with "_pcre_" so that they are unlikely to clash |
1179 |
|
with other external names. |
1180 |
|
|
1181 |
|
4. Added an alternate matching function, pcre_dfa_exec(), which matches using |
1182 |
|
a different (DFA) algorithm. Although it is slower than the original |
1183 |
|
function, it does have some advantages for certain types of matching |
1184 |
|
problem. |
1185 |
|
|
1186 |
|
5. Upgrades to pcretest in order to test the features of pcre_dfa_exec(), |
1187 |
|
including restarting after a partial match. |
1188 |
|
|
1189 |
|
6. A patch for pcregrep that defines INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES if it is not |
1190 |
|
defined when compiling for Windows was sent to me. I have put it into the |
1191 |
|
code, though I have no means of testing or verifying it. |
1192 |
|
|
1193 |
|
7. Added the pcre_refcount() auxiliary function. |
1194 |
|
|
1195 |
|
8. Added the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option. This constrains an unanchored pattern to |
1196 |
|
match before or at the first newline in the subject string. In pcretest, |
1197 |
|
the /f option on a pattern can be used to set this. |
1198 |
|
|
1199 |
|
9. A repeated \w when used in UTF-8 mode with characters greater than 256 |
1200 |
|
would behave wrongly. This has been present in PCRE since release 4.0. |
1201 |
|
|
1202 |
|
10. A number of changes to the pcregrep command: |
1203 |
|
|
1204 |
|
(a) Refactored how -x works; insert ^(...)$ instead of setting |
1205 |
|
PCRE_ANCHORED and checking the length, in preparation for adding |
1206 |
|
something similar for -w. |
1207 |
|
|
1208 |
|
(b) Added the -w (match as a word) option. |
1209 |
|
|
1210 |
|
(c) Refactored the way lines are read and buffered so as to have more |
1211 |
|
than one at a time available. |
1212 |
|
|
1213 |
|
(d) Implemented a pcregrep test script. |
1214 |
|
|
1215 |
|
(e) Added the -M (multiline match) option. This allows patterns to match |
1216 |
|
over several lines of the subject. The buffering ensures that at least |
1217 |
|
8K, or the rest of the document (whichever is the shorter) is available |
1218 |
|
for matching (and similarly the previous 8K for lookbehind assertions). |
1219 |
|
|
1220 |
|
(f) Changed the --help output so that it now says |
1221 |
|
|
1222 |
|
-w, --word-regex(p) |
1223 |
|
|
1224 |
|
instead of two lines, one with "regex" and the other with "regexp" |
1225 |
|
because that confused at least one person since the short forms are the |
1226 |
|
same. (This required a bit of code, as the output is generated |
1227 |
|
automatically from a table. It wasn't just a text change.) |
1228 |
|
|
1229 |
|
(g) -- can be used to terminate pcregrep options if the next thing isn't an |
1230 |
|
option but starts with a hyphen. Could be a pattern or a path name |
1231 |
|
starting with a hyphen, for instance. |
1232 |
|
|
1233 |
|
(h) "-" can be given as a file name to represent stdin. |
1234 |
|
|
1235 |
|
(i) When file names are being printed, "(standard input)" is used for |
1236 |
|
the standard input, for compatibility with GNU grep. Previously |
1237 |
|
"<stdin>" was used. |
1238 |
|
|
1239 |
|
(j) The option --label=xxx can be used to supply a name to be used for |
1240 |
|
stdin when file names are being printed. There is no short form. |
1241 |
|
|
1242 |
|
(k) Re-factored the options decoding logic because we are going to add |
1243 |
|
two more options that take data. Such options can now be given in four |
1244 |
|
different ways, e.g. "-fname", "-f name", "--file=name", "--file name". |
1245 |
|
|
1246 |
|
(l) Added the -A, -B, and -C options for requesting that lines of context |
1247 |
|
around matches be printed. |
1248 |
|
|
1249 |
|
(m) Added the -L option to print the names of files that do not contain |
1250 |
|
any matching lines, that is, the complement of -l. |
1251 |
|
|
1252 |
|
(n) The return code is 2 if any file cannot be opened, but pcregrep does |
1253 |
|
continue to scan other files. |
1254 |
|
|
1255 |
|
(o) The -s option was incorrectly implemented. For compatibility with other |
1256 |
|
greps, it now suppresses the error message for a non-existent or non- |
1257 |
|
accessible file (but not the return code). There is a new option called |
1258 |
|
-q that suppresses the output of matching lines, which was what -s was |
1259 |
|
previously doing. |
1260 |
|
|
1261 |
|
(p) Added --include and --exclude options to specify files for inclusion |
1262 |
|
and exclusion when recursing. |
1263 |
|
|
1264 |
|
11. The Makefile was not using the Autoconf-supported LDFLAGS macro properly. |
1265 |
|
Hopefully, it now does. |
1266 |
|
|
1267 |
|
12. Missing cast in pcre_study(). |
1268 |
|
|
1269 |
|
13. Added an "uninstall" target to the makefile. |
1270 |
|
|
1271 |
|
14. Replaced "extern" in the function prototypes in Makefile.in with |
1272 |
|
"PCRE_DATA_SCOPE", which defaults to 'extern' or 'extern "C"' in the Unix |
1273 |
|
world, but is set differently for Windows. |
1274 |
|
|
1275 |
|
15. Added a second compiling function called pcre_compile2(). The only |
1276 |
|
difference is that it has an extra argument, which is a pointer to an |
1277 |
|
integer error code. When there is a compile-time failure, this is set |
1278 |
|
non-zero, in addition to the error test pointer being set to point to an |
1279 |
|
error message. The new argument may be NULL if no error number is required |
1280 |
|
(but then you may as well call pcre_compile(), which is now just a |
1281 |
|
wrapper). This facility is provided because some applications need a |
1282 |
|
numeric error indication, but it has also enabled me to tidy up the way |
1283 |
|
compile-time errors are handled in the POSIX wrapper. |
1284 |
|
|
1285 |
|
16. Added VPATH=.libs to the makefile; this should help when building with one |
1286 |
|
prefix path and installing with another. (Or so I'm told by someone who |
1287 |
|
knows more about this stuff than I do.) |
1288 |
|
|
1289 |
|
17. Added a new option, REG_DOTALL, to the POSIX function regcomp(). This |
1290 |
|
passes PCRE_DOTALL to the pcre_compile() function, making the "." character |
1291 |
|
match everything, including newlines. This is not POSIX-compatible, but |
1292 |
|
somebody wanted the feature. From pcretest it can be activated by using |
1293 |
|
both the P and the s flags. |
1294 |
|
|
1295 |
|
18. AC_PROG_LIBTOOL appeared twice in Makefile.in. Removed one. |
1296 |
|
|
1297 |
|
19. libpcre.pc was being incorrectly installed as executable. |
1298 |
|
|
1299 |
|
20. A couple of places in pcretest check for end-of-line by looking for '\n'; |
1300 |
|
it now also looks for '\r' so that it will work unmodified on Windows. |
1301 |
|
|
1302 |
|
21. Added Google's contributed C++ wrapper to the distribution. |
1303 |
|
|
1304 |
|
22. Added some untidy missing memory free() calls in pcretest, to keep |
1305 |
|
Electric Fence happy when testing. |
1306 |
|
|
1307 |
|
|
1308 |
|
|
1309 |
|
Version 5.0 13-Sep-04 |
1310 |
|
--------------------- |
1311 |
|
|
1312 |
|
1. Internal change: literal characters are no longer packed up into items |
1313 |
|
containing multiple characters in a single byte-string. Each character |
1314 |
|
is now matched using a separate opcode. However, there may be more than one |
1315 |
|
byte in the character in UTF-8 mode. |
1316 |
|
|
1317 |
|
2. The pcre_callout_block structure has two new fields: pattern_position and |
1318 |
|
next_item_length. These contain the offset in the pattern to the next match |
1319 |
|
item, and its length, respectively. |
1320 |
|
|
1321 |
|
3. The PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT option for pcre_compile() requests the automatic |
1322 |
|
insertion of callouts before each pattern item. Added the /C option to |
1323 |
|
pcretest to make use of this. |
1324 |
|
|
1325 |
|
4. On the advice of a Windows user, the lines |
1326 |
|
|
1327 |
|
#if defined(_WIN32) || defined(WIN32) |
1328 |
|
_setmode( _fileno( stdout ), 0x8000 ); |
1329 |
|
#endif /* defined(_WIN32) || defined(WIN32) */ |
1330 |
|
|
1331 |
|
have been added to the source of pcretest. This apparently does useful |
1332 |
|
magic in relation to line terminators. |
1333 |
|
|
1334 |
|
5. Changed "r" and "w" in the calls to fopen() in pcretest to "rb" and "wb" |
1335 |
|
for the benefit of those environments where the "b" makes a difference. |
1336 |
|
|
1337 |
|
6. The icc compiler has the same options as gcc, but "configure" doesn't seem |
1338 |
|
to know about it. I have put a hack into configure.in that adds in code |
1339 |
|
to set GCC=yes if CC=icc. This seems to end up at a point in the |
1340 |
|
generated configure script that is early enough to affect the setting of |
1341 |
|
compiler options, which is what is needed, but I have no means of testing |
1342 |
|
whether it really works. (The user who reported this had patched the |
1343 |
|
generated configure script, which of course I cannot do.) |
1344 |
|
|
1345 |
|
LATER: After change 22 below (new libtool files), the configure script |
1346 |
|
seems to know about icc (and also ecc). Therefore, I have commented out |
1347 |
|
this hack in configure.in. |
1348 |
|
|
1349 |
|
7. Added support for pkg-config (2 patches were sent in). |
1350 |
|
|
1351 |
|
8. Negated POSIX character classes that used a combination of internal tables |
1352 |
|
were completely broken. These were [[:^alpha:]], [[:^alnum:]], and |
1353 |
|
[[:^ascii]]. Typically, they would match almost any characters. The other |
1354 |
|
POSIX classes were not broken in this way. |
1355 |
|
|
1356 |
|
9. Matching the pattern "\b.*?" against "ab cd", starting at offset 1, failed |
1357 |
|
to find the match, as PCRE was deluded into thinking that the match had to |
1358 |
|
start at the start point or following a newline. The same bug applied to |
1359 |
|
patterns with negative forward assertions or any backward assertions |
1360 |
|
preceding ".*" at the start, unless the pattern required a fixed first |
1361 |
|
character. This was a failing pattern: "(?!.bcd).*". The bug is now fixed. |
1362 |
|
|
1363 |
|
10. In UTF-8 mode, when moving forwards in the subject after a failed match |
1364 |
|
starting at the last subject character, bytes beyond the end of the subject |
1365 |
|
string were read. |
1366 |
|
|
1367 |
|
11. Renamed the variable "class" as "classbits" to make life easier for C++ |
1368 |
|
users. (Previously there was a macro definition, but it apparently wasn't |
1369 |
|
enough.) |
1370 |
|
|
1371 |
|
12. Added the new field "tables" to the extra data so that tables can be passed |
1372 |
|
in at exec time, or the internal tables can be re-selected. This allows |
1373 |
|
a compiled regex to be saved and re-used at a later time by a different |
1374 |
|
program that might have everything at different addresses. |
1375 |
|
|
1376 |
|
13. Modified the pcre-config script so that, when run on Solaris, it shows a |
1377 |
|
-R library as well as a -L library. |
1378 |
|
|
1379 |
|
14. The debugging options of pcretest (-d on the command line or D on a |
1380 |
|
pattern) showed incorrect output for anything following an extended class |
1381 |
|
that contained multibyte characters and which was followed by a quantifier. |
1382 |
|
|
1383 |
|
15. Added optional support for general category Unicode character properties |
1384 |
|
via the \p, \P, and \X escapes. Unicode property support implies UTF-8 |
1385 |
|
support. It adds about 90K to the size of the library. The meanings of the |
1386 |
|
inbuilt class escapes such as \d and \s have NOT been changed. |
1387 |
|
|
1388 |
|
16. Updated pcredemo.c to include calls to free() to release the memory for the |
1389 |
|
compiled pattern. |
1390 |
|
|
1391 |
|
17. The generated file chartables.c was being created in the source directory |
1392 |
|
instead of in the building directory. This caused the build to fail if the |
1393 |
|
source directory was different from the building directory, and was |
1394 |
|
read-only. |
1395 |
|
|
1396 |
|
18. Added some sample Win commands from Mark Tetrode into the NON-UNIX-USE |
1397 |
|
file. No doubt somebody will tell me if they don't make sense... Also added |
1398 |
|
Dan Mooney's comments about building on OpenVMS. |
1399 |
|
|
1400 |
|
19. Added support for partial matching via the PCRE_PARTIAL option for |
1401 |
|
pcre_exec() and the \P data escape in pcretest. |
1402 |
|
|
1403 |
|
20. Extended pcretest with 3 new pattern features: |
1404 |
|
|
1405 |
|
(i) A pattern option of the form ">rest-of-line" causes pcretest to |
1406 |
|
write the compiled pattern to the file whose name is "rest-of-line". |
1407 |
|
This is a straight binary dump of the data, with the saved pointer to |
1408 |
|
the character tables forced to be NULL. The study data, if any, is |
1409 |
|
written too. After writing, pcretest reads a new pattern. |
1410 |
|
|
1411 |
|
(ii) If, instead of a pattern, "<rest-of-line" is given, pcretest reads a |
1412 |
|
compiled pattern from the given file. There must not be any |
1413 |
|
occurrences of "<" in the file name (pretty unlikely); if there are, |
1414 |
|
pcretest will instead treat the initial "<" as a pattern delimiter. |
1415 |
|
After reading in the pattern, pcretest goes on to read data lines as |
1416 |
|
usual. |
1417 |
|
|
1418 |
|
(iii) The F pattern option causes pcretest to flip the bytes in the 32-bit |
1419 |
|
and 16-bit fields in a compiled pattern, to simulate a pattern that |
1420 |
|
was compiled on a host of opposite endianness. |
1421 |
|
|
1422 |
|
21. The pcre-exec() function can now cope with patterns that were compiled on |
1423 |
|
hosts of opposite endianness, with this restriction: |
1424 |
|
|
1425 |
|
As for any compiled expression that is saved and used later, the tables |
1426 |
|
pointer field cannot be preserved; the extra_data field in the arguments |
1427 |
|
to pcre_exec() should be used to pass in a tables address if a value |
1428 |
|
other than the default internal tables were used at compile time. |
1429 |
|
|
1430 |
|
22. Calling pcre_exec() with a negative value of the "ovecsize" parameter is |
1431 |
|
now diagnosed as an error. Previously, most of the time, a negative number |
1432 |
|
would have been treated as zero, but if in addition "ovector" was passed as |
1433 |
|
NULL, a crash could occur. |
1434 |
|
|
1435 |
|
23. Updated the files ltmain.sh, config.sub, config.guess, and aclocal.m4 with |
1436 |
|
new versions from the libtool 1.5 distribution (the last one is a copy of |
1437 |
|
a file called libtool.m4). This seems to have fixed the need to patch |
1438 |
|
"configure" to support Darwin 1.3 (which I used to do). However, I still |
1439 |
|
had to patch ltmain.sh to ensure that ${SED} is set (it isn't on my |
1440 |
|
workstation). |
1441 |
|
|
1442 |
|
24. Changed the PCRE licence to be the more standard "BSD" licence. |
1443 |
|
|
1444 |
|
|
1445 |
|
Version 4.5 01-Dec-03 |
1446 |
|
--------------------- |
1447 |
|
|
1448 |
|
1. There has been some re-arrangement of the code for the match() function so |
1449 |
|
that it can be compiled in a version that does not call itself recursively. |
1450 |
|
Instead, it keeps those local variables that need separate instances for |
1451 |
|
each "recursion" in a frame on the heap, and gets/frees frames whenever it |
1452 |
|
needs to "recurse". Keeping track of where control must go is done by means |
1453 |
|
of setjmp/longjmp. The whole thing is implemented by a set of macros that |
1454 |
|
hide most of the details from the main code, and operates only if |
1455 |
|
NO_RECURSE is defined while compiling pcre.c. If PCRE is built using the |
1456 |
|
"configure" mechanism, "--disable-stack-for-recursion" turns on this way of |
1457 |
|
operating. |
1458 |
|
|
1459 |
|
To make it easier for callers to provide specially tailored get/free |
1460 |
|
functions for this usage, two new functions, pcre_stack_malloc, and |
1461 |
|
pcre_stack_free, are used. They are always called in strict stacking order, |
1462 |
|
and the size of block requested is always the same. |
1463 |
|
|
1464 |
|
The PCRE_CONFIG_STACKRECURSE info parameter can be used to find out whether |
1465 |
|
PCRE has been compiled to use the stack or the heap for recursion. The |
1466 |
|
-C option of pcretest uses this to show which version is compiled. |
1467 |
|
|
1468 |
|
A new data escape \S, is added to pcretest; it causes the amounts of store |
1469 |
|
obtained and freed by both kinds of malloc/free at match time to be added |
1470 |
|
to the output. |
1471 |
|
|
1472 |
|
2. Changed the locale test to use "fr_FR" instead of "fr" because that's |
1473 |
|
what's available on my current Linux desktop machine. |
1474 |
|
|
1475 |
|
3. When matching a UTF-8 string, the test for a valid string at the start has |
1476 |
|
been extended. If start_offset is not zero, PCRE now checks that it points |
1477 |
|
to a byte that is the start of a UTF-8 character. If not, it returns |
1478 |
|
PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8_OFFSET (-11). Note: the whole string is still checked; |
1479 |
|
this is necessary because there may be backward assertions in the pattern. |
1480 |
|
When matching the same subject several times, it may save resources to use |
1481 |
|
PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK on all but the first call if the string is long. |
1482 |
|
|
1483 |
|
4. The code for checking the validity of UTF-8 strings has been tightened so |
1484 |
|
that it rejects (a) strings containing 0xfe or 0xff bytes and (b) strings |
1485 |
|
containing "overlong sequences". |
1486 |
|
|
1487 |
|
5. Fixed a bug (appearing twice) that I could not find any way of exploiting! |
1488 |
|
I had written "if ((digitab[*p++] && chtab_digit) == 0)" where the "&&" |
1489 |
|
should have been "&", but it just so happened that all the cases this let |
1490 |
|
through by mistake were picked up later in the function. |
1491 |
|
|
1492 |
|
6. I had used a variable called "isblank" - this is a C99 function, causing |
1493 |
|
some compilers to warn. To avoid this, I renamed it (as "blankclass"). |
1494 |
|
|
1495 |
|
7. Cosmetic: (a) only output another newline at the end of pcretest if it is |
1496 |
|
prompting; (b) run "./pcretest /dev/null" at the start of the test script |
1497 |
|
so the version is shown; (c) stop "make test" echoing "./RunTest". |
1498 |
|
|
1499 |
|
8. Added patches from David Burgess to enable PCRE to run on EBCDIC systems. |
1500 |
|
|
1501 |
|
9. The prototype for memmove() for systems that don't have it was using |
1502 |
|
size_t, but the inclusion of the header that defines size_t was later. I've |
1503 |
|
moved the #includes for the C headers earlier to avoid this. |
1504 |
|
|
1505 |
|
10. Added some adjustments to the code to make it easier to compiler on certain |
1506 |
|
special systems: |
1507 |
|
|
1508 |
|
(a) Some "const" qualifiers were missing. |
1509 |
|
(b) Added the macro EXPORT before all exported functions; by default this |
1510 |
|
is defined to be empty. |
1511 |
|
(c) Changed the dftables auxiliary program (that builds chartables.c) so |
1512 |
|
that it reads its output file name as an argument instead of writing |
1513 |
|
to the standard output and assuming this can be redirected. |
1514 |
|
|
1515 |
|
11. In UTF-8 mode, if a recursive reference (e.g. (?1)) followed a character |
1516 |
|
class containing characters with values greater than 255, PCRE compilation |
1517 |
|
went into a loop. |
1518 |
|
|
1519 |
|
12. A recursive reference to a subpattern that was within another subpattern |
1520 |
|
that had a minimum quantifier of zero caused PCRE to crash. For example, |
1521 |
|
(x(y(?2))z)? provoked this bug with a subject that got as far as the |
1522 |
|
recursion. If the recursively-called subpattern itself had a zero repeat, |
1523 |
|
that was OK. |
1524 |
|
|
1525 |
|
13. In pcretest, the buffer for reading a data line was set at 30K, but the |
1526 |
|
buffer into which it was copied (for escape processing) was still set at |
1527 |
|
1024, so long lines caused crashes. |
1528 |
|
|
1529 |
|
14. A pattern such as /[ab]{1,3}+/ failed to compile, giving the error |
1530 |
|
"internal error: code overflow...". This applied to any character class |
1531 |
|
that was followed by a possessive quantifier. |
1532 |
|
|
1533 |
|
15. Modified the Makefile to add libpcre.la as a prerequisite for |
1534 |
|
libpcreposix.la because I was told this is needed for a parallel build to |
1535 |
|
work. |
1536 |
|
|
1537 |
|
16. If a pattern that contained .* following optional items at the start was |
1538 |
|
studied, the wrong optimizing data was generated, leading to matching |
1539 |
|
errors. For example, studying /[ab]*.*c/ concluded, erroneously, that any |
1540 |
|
matching string must start with a or b or c. The correct conclusion for |
1541 |
|
this pattern is that a match can start with any character. |
1542 |
|
|
1543 |
|
|
1544 |
|
Version 4.4 13-Aug-03 |
1545 |
|
--------------------- |
1546 |
|
|
1547 |
|
1. In UTF-8 mode, a character class containing characters with values between |
1548 |
|
127 and 255 was not handled correctly if the compiled pattern was studied. |
1549 |
|
In fixing this, I have also improved the studying algorithm for such |
1550 |
|
classes (slightly). |
1551 |
|
|
1552 |
|
2. Three internal functions had redundant arguments passed to them. Removal |
1553 |
|
might give a very teeny performance improvement. |
1554 |
|
|
1555 |
|
3. Documentation bug: the value of the capture_top field in a callout is *one |
1556 |
|
more than* the number of the hightest numbered captured substring. |
1557 |
|
|
1558 |
|
4. The Makefile linked pcretest and pcregrep with -lpcre, which could result |
1559 |
|
in incorrectly linking with a previously installed version. They now link |
1560 |
|
explicitly with libpcre.la. |
1561 |
|
|
1562 |
|
5. configure.in no longer needs to recognize Cygwin specially. |
1563 |
|
|
1564 |
|
6. A problem in pcre.in for Windows platforms is fixed. |
1565 |
|
|
1566 |
|
7. If a pattern was successfully studied, and the -d (or /D) flag was given to |
1567 |
|
pcretest, it used to include the size of the study block as part of its |
1568 |
|
output. Unfortunately, the structure contains a field that has a different |
1569 |
|
size on different hardware architectures. This meant that the tests that |
1570 |
|
showed this size failed. As the block is currently always of a fixed size, |
1571 |
|
this information isn't actually particularly useful in pcretest output, so |
1572 |
|
I have just removed it. |
1573 |
|
|
1574 |
|
8. Three pre-processor statements accidentally did not start in column 1. |
1575 |
|
Sadly, there are *still* compilers around that complain, even though |
1576 |
|
standard C has not required this for well over a decade. Sigh. |
1577 |
|
|
1578 |
|
9. In pcretest, the code for checking callouts passed small integers in the |
1579 |
|
callout_data field, which is a void * field. However, some picky compilers |
1580 |
|
complained about the casts involved for this on 64-bit systems. Now |
1581 |
|
pcretest passes the address of the small integer instead, which should get |
1582 |
|
rid of the warnings. |
1583 |
|
|
1584 |
|
10. By default, when in UTF-8 mode, PCRE now checks for valid UTF-8 strings at |
1585 |
|
both compile and run time, and gives an error if an invalid UTF-8 sequence |
1586 |
|
is found. There is a option for disabling this check in cases where the |
1587 |
|
string is known to be correct and/or the maximum performance is wanted. |
1588 |
|
|
1589 |
|
11. In response to a bug report, I changed one line in Makefile.in from |
1590 |
|
|
1591 |
|
-Wl,--out-implib,.libs/lib@WIN_PREFIX@pcreposix.dll.a \ |
1592 |
|
to |
1593 |
|
-Wl,--out-implib,.libs/@WIN_PREFIX@libpcreposix.dll.a \ |
1594 |
|
|
1595 |
|
to look similar to other lines, but I have no way of telling whether this |
1596 |
|
is the right thing to do, as I do not use Windows. No doubt I'll get told |
1597 |
|
if it's wrong... |
1598 |
|
|
1599 |
|
|
1600 |
|
Version 4.3 21-May-03 |
1601 |
|
--------------------- |
1602 |
|
|
1603 |
|
1. Two instances of @WIN_PREFIX@ omitted from the Windows targets in the |
1604 |
|
Makefile. |
1605 |
|
|
1606 |
|
2. Some refactoring to improve the quality of the code: |
1607 |
|
|
1608 |
|
(i) The utf8_table... variables are now declared "const". |
1609 |
|
|
1610 |
|
(ii) The code for \cx, which used the "case flipping" table to upper case |
1611 |
|
lower case letters, now just substracts 32. This is ASCII-specific, |
1612 |
|
but the whole concept of \cx is ASCII-specific, so it seems |
1613 |
|
reasonable. |
1614 |
|
|
1615 |
|
(iii) PCRE was using its character types table to recognize decimal and |
1616 |
|
hexadecimal digits in the pattern. This is silly, because it handles |
1617 |
|
only 0-9, a-f, and A-F, but the character types table is locale- |
1618 |
|
specific, which means strange things might happen. A private |
1619 |
|
table is now used for this - though it costs 256 bytes, a table is |
1620 |
|
much faster than multiple explicit tests. Of course, the standard |
1621 |
|
character types table is still used for matching digits in subject |
1622 |
|
strings against \d. |
1623 |
|
|
1624 |
|
(iv) Strictly, the identifier ESC_t is reserved by POSIX (all identifiers |
1625 |
|
ending in _t are). So I've renamed it as ESC_tee. |
1626 |
|
|
1627 |
|
3. The first argument for regexec() in the POSIX wrapper should have been |
1628 |
|
defined as "const". |
1629 |
|
|
1630 |
|
4. Changed pcretest to use malloc() for its buffers so that they can be |
1631 |
|
Electric Fenced for debugging. |
1632 |
|
|
1633 |
|
5. There were several places in the code where, in UTF-8 mode, PCRE would try |
1634 |
|
to read one or more bytes before the start of the subject string. Often this |
1635 |
|
had no effect on PCRE's behaviour, but in some circumstances it could |
1636 |
|
provoke a segmentation fault. |
1637 |
|
|
1638 |
|
6. A lookbehind at the start of a pattern in UTF-8 mode could also cause PCRE |
1639 |
|
to try to read one or more bytes before the start of the subject string. |
1640 |
|
|
1641 |
|
7. A lookbehind in a pattern matched in non-UTF-8 mode on a PCRE compiled with |
1642 |
|
UTF-8 support could misbehave in various ways if the subject string |
1643 |
|
contained bytes with the 0x80 bit set and the 0x40 bit unset in a lookbehind |
1644 |
|
area. (PCRE was not checking for the UTF-8 mode flag, and trying to move |
1645 |
|
back over UTF-8 characters.) |
1646 |
|
|
1647 |
|
|
1648 |
|
Version 4.2 14-Apr-03 |
1649 |
|
--------------------- |
1650 |
|
|
1651 |
|
1. Typo "#if SUPPORT_UTF8" instead of "#ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8" fixed. |
1652 |
|
|
1653 |
|
2. Changes to the building process, supplied by Ronald Landheer-Cieslak |
1654 |
|
[ON_WINDOWS]: new variable, "#" on non-Windows platforms |
1655 |
|
[NOT_ON_WINDOWS]: new variable, "#" on Windows platforms |
1656 |
|
[WIN_PREFIX]: new variable, "cyg" for Cygwin |
1657 |
|
* Makefile.in: use autoconf substitution for OBJEXT, EXEEXT, BUILD_OBJEXT |
1658 |
|
and BUILD_EXEEXT |
1659 |
|
Note: automatic setting of the BUILD variables is not yet working |
1660 |
|
set CPPFLAGS and BUILD_CPPFLAGS (but don't use yet) - should be used at |
1661 |
|
compile-time but not at link-time |
1662 |
|
[LINK]: use for linking executables only |
1663 |
|
make different versions for Windows and non-Windows |
1664 |
|
[LINKLIB]: new variable, copy of UNIX-style LINK, used for linking |
1665 |
|
libraries |
1666 |
|
[LINK_FOR_BUILD]: new variable |
1667 |
|
[OBJEXT]: use throughout |
1668 |
|
[EXEEXT]: use throughout |
1669 |
|
<winshared>: new target |
1670 |
|
<wininstall>: new target |
1671 |
|
<dftables.o>: use native compiler |
1672 |
|
<dftables>: use native linker |
1673 |
|
<install>: handle Windows platform correctly |
1674 |
|
<clean>: ditto |
1675 |
|
<check>: ditto |
1676 |
|
copy DLL to top builddir before testing |
1677 |
|
|
1678 |
|
As part of these changes, -no-undefined was removed again. This was reported |
1679 |
|
to give trouble on HP-UX 11.0, so getting rid of it seems like a good idea |
1680 |
|
in any case. |
1681 |
|
|
1682 |
|
3. Some tidies to get rid of compiler warnings: |
1683 |
|
|
1684 |
|
. In the match_data structure, match_limit was an unsigned long int, whereas |
1685 |
|
match_call_count was an int. I've made them both unsigned long ints. |
1686 |
|
|
1687 |
|
. In pcretest the fact that a const uschar * doesn't automatically cast to |
1688 |
|
a void * provoked a warning. |
1689 |
|
|
1690 |
|
. Turning on some more compiler warnings threw up some "shadow" variables |
1691 |
|
and a few more missing casts. |
1692 |
|
|
1693 |
|
4. If PCRE was complied with UTF-8 support, but called without the PCRE_UTF8 |
1694 |
|
option, a class that contained a single character with a value between 128 |
1695 |
|
and 255 (e.g. /[\xFF]/) caused PCRE to crash. |
1696 |
|
|
1697 |
|
5. If PCRE was compiled with UTF-8 support, but called without the PCRE_UTF8 |
1698 |
|
option, a class that contained several characters, but with at least one |
1699 |
|
whose value was between 128 and 255 caused PCRE to crash. |
1700 |
|
|
1701 |
|
|
1702 |
|
Version 4.1 12-Mar-03 |
1703 |
|
--------------------- |
1704 |
|
|
1705 |
|
1. Compiling with gcc -pedantic found a couple of places where casts were |
1706 |
|
needed, and a string in dftables.c that was longer than standard compilers are |
1707 |
|
required to support. |
1708 |
|
|
1709 |
|
2. Compiling with Sun's compiler found a few more places where the code could |
1710 |
|
be tidied up in order to avoid warnings. |
1711 |
|
|
1712 |
|
3. The variables for cross-compiling were called HOST_CC and HOST_CFLAGS; the |
1713 |
|
first of these names is deprecated in the latest Autoconf in favour of the name |
1714 |
|
CC_FOR_BUILD, because "host" is typically used to mean the system on which the |
1715 |
|
compiled code will be run. I can't find a reference for HOST_CFLAGS, but by |
1716 |
|
analogy I have changed it to CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD. |
1717 |
|
|
1718 |
|
4. Added -no-undefined to the linking command in the Makefile, because this is |
1719 |
|
apparently helpful for Windows. To make it work, also added "-L. -lpcre" to the |
1720 |
|
linking step for the pcreposix library. |
1721 |
|
|
1722 |
|
5. PCRE was failing to diagnose the case of two named groups with the same |
1723 |
|
name. |
1724 |
|
|
1725 |
|
6. A problem with one of PCRE's optimizations was discovered. PCRE remembers a |
1726 |
|
literal character that is needed in the subject for a match, and scans along to |
1727 |
|
ensure that it is present before embarking on the full matching process. This |
1728 |
|
saves time in cases of nested unlimited repeats that are never going to match. |
1729 |
|
Problem: the scan can take a lot of time if the subject is very long (e.g. |
1730 |
|
megabytes), thus penalizing straightforward matches. It is now done only if the |
1731 |
|
amount of subject to be scanned is less than 1000 bytes. |
1732 |
|
|
1733 |
|
7. A lesser problem with the same optimization is that it was recording the |
1734 |
|
first character of an anchored pattern as "needed", thus provoking a search |
1735 |
|
right along the subject, even when the first match of the pattern was going to |
1736 |
|
fail. The "needed" character is now not set for anchored patterns, unless it |
1737 |
|
follows something in the pattern that is of non-fixed length. Thus, it still |
1738 |
|
fulfils its original purpose of finding quick non-matches in cases of nested |
1739 |
|
unlimited repeats, but isn't used for simple anchored patterns such as /^abc/. |
1740 |
|
|
1741 |
|
|
1742 |
|
Version 4.0 17-Feb-03 |
1743 |
|
--------------------- |
1744 |
|
|
1745 |
|
1. If a comment in an extended regex that started immediately after a meta-item |
1746 |
|
extended to the end of string, PCRE compiled incorrect data. This could lead to |
1747 |
|
all kinds of weird effects. Example: /#/ was bad; /()#/ was bad; /a#/ was not. |
1748 |
|
|
1749 |
|
2. Moved to autoconf 2.53 and libtool 1.4.2. |
1750 |
|
|
1751 |
|
3. Perl 5.8 no longer needs "use utf8" for doing UTF-8 things. Consequently, |
1752 |
|
the special perltest8 script is no longer needed - all the tests can be run |
1753 |
|
from a single perltest script. |
1754 |
|
|
1755 |
|
4. From 5.004, Perl has not included the VT character (0x0b) in the set defined |
1756 |
|
by \s. It has now been removed in PCRE. This means it isn't recognized as |
1757 |
|
whitespace in /x regexes too, which is the same as Perl. Note that the POSIX |
1758 |
|
class [:space:] *does* include VT, thereby creating a mess. |
1759 |
|
|
1760 |
|
5. Added the class [:blank:] (a GNU extension from Perl 5.8) to match only |
1761 |
|
space and tab. |
1762 |
|
|
1763 |
|
6. Perl 5.005 was a long time ago. It's time to amalgamate the tests that use |
1764 |
|
its new features into the main test script, reducing the number of scripts. |
1765 |
|
|
1766 |
|
7. Perl 5.8 has changed the meaning of patterns like /a(?i)b/. Earlier versions |
1767 |
|
were backward compatible, and made the (?i) apply to the whole pattern, as if |
1768 |
|
/i were given. Now it behaves more logically, and applies the option setting |
1769 |
|
only to what follows. PCRE has been changed to follow suit. However, if it |
1770 |
|
finds options settings right at the start of the pattern, it extracts them into |
1771 |
|
the global options, as before. Thus, they show up in the info data. |
1772 |
|
|
1773 |
|
8. Added support for the \Q...\E escape sequence. Characters in between are |
1774 |
|
treated as literals. This is slightly different from Perl in that $ and @ are |
1775 |
|
also handled as literals inside the quotes. In Perl, they will cause variable |
1776 |
|
interpolation. Note the following examples: |
1777 |
|
|
1778 |
|
Pattern PCRE matches Perl matches |
1779 |
|
|
1780 |
|
\Qabc$xyz\E abc$xyz abc followed by the contents of $xyz |
1781 |
|
\Qabc\$xyz\E abc\$xyz abc\$xyz |
1782 |
|
\Qabc\E\$\Qxyz\E abc$xyz abc$xyz |
1783 |
|
|
1784 |
|
For compatibility with Perl, \Q...\E sequences are recognized inside character |
1785 |
|
classes as well as outside them. |
1786 |
|
|
1787 |
|
9. Re-organized 3 code statements in pcretest to avoid "overflow in |
1788 |
|
floating-point constant arithmetic" warnings from a Microsoft compiler. Added a |
1789 |
|
(size_t) cast to one statement in pcretest and one in pcreposix to avoid |
1790 |
|
signed/unsigned warnings. |
1791 |
|
|
1792 |
|
10. SunOS4 doesn't have strtoul(). This was used only for unpicking the -o |
1793 |
|
option for pcretest, so I've replaced it by a simple function that does just |
1794 |
|
that job. |
1795 |
|
|
1796 |
|
11. pcregrep was ending with code 0 instead of 2 for the commands "pcregrep" or |
1797 |
|
"pcregrep -". |
1798 |
|
|
1799 |
|
12. Added "possessive quantifiers" ?+, *+, ++, and {,}+ which come from Sun's |
1800 |
|
Java package. This provides some syntactic sugar for simple cases of what my |
1801 |
|
documentation calls "once-only subpatterns". A pattern such as x*+ is the same |
1802 |
|
as (?>x*). In other words, if what is inside (?>...) is just a single repeated |
1803 |
|
item, you can use this simplified notation. Note that only makes sense with |
1804 |
|
greedy quantifiers. Consequently, the use of the possessive quantifier forces |
1805 |
|
greediness, whatever the setting of the PCRE_UNGREEDY option. |
1806 |
|
|
1807 |
|
13. A change of greediness default within a pattern was not taking effect at |
1808 |
|
the current level for patterns like /(b+(?U)a+)/. It did apply to parenthesized |
1809 |
|
subpatterns that followed. Patterns like /b+(?U)a+/ worked because the option |
1810 |
|
was abstracted outside. |
1811 |
|
|
1812 |
|
14. PCRE now supports the \G assertion. It is true when the current matching |
1813 |
|
position is at the start point of the match. This differs from \A when the |
1814 |
|
starting offset is non-zero. Used with the /g option of pcretest (or similar |
1815 |
|
code), it works in the same way as it does for Perl's /g option. If all |
1816 |
|
alternatives of a regex begin with \G, the expression is anchored to the start |
1817 |
|
match position, and the "anchored" flag is set in the compiled expression. |
1818 |
|
|
1819 |
|
15. Some bugs concerning the handling of certain option changes within patterns |
1820 |
|
have been fixed. These applied to options other than (?ims). For example, |
1821 |
|
"a(?x: b c )d" did not match "XabcdY" but did match "Xa b c dY". It should have |
1822 |
|
been the other way round. Some of this was related to change 7 above. |
1823 |
|
|
1824 |
|
16. PCRE now gives errors for /[.x.]/ and /[=x=]/ as unsupported POSIX |
1825 |
|
features, as Perl does. Previously, PCRE gave the warnings only for /[[.x.]]/ |
1826 |
|
and /[[=x=]]/. PCRE now also gives an error for /[:name:]/ because it supports |
1827 |
|
POSIX classes only within a class (e.g. /[[:alpha:]]/). |
1828 |
|
|
1829 |
|
17. Added support for Perl's \C escape. This matches one byte, even in UTF8 |
1830 |
|
mode. Unlike ".", it always matches newline, whatever the setting of |
1831 |
|
PCRE_DOTALL. However, PCRE does not permit \C to appear in lookbehind |
1832 |
|
assertions. Perl allows it, but it doesn't (in general) work because it can't |
1833 |
|
calculate the length of the lookbehind. At least, that's the case for Perl |
1834 |
|
5.8.0 - I've been told they are going to document that it doesn't work in |
1835 |
|
future. |
1836 |
|
|
1837 |
|
18. Added an error diagnosis for escapes that PCRE does not support: these are |
1838 |
|
\L, \l, \N, \P, \p, \U, \u, and \X. |
1839 |
|
|
1840 |
|
19. Although correctly diagnosing a missing ']' in a character class, PCRE was |
1841 |
|
reading past the end of the pattern in cases such as /[abcd/. |
1842 |
|
|
1843 |
|
20. PCRE was getting more memory than necessary for patterns with classes that |
1844 |
|
contained both POSIX named classes and other characters, e.g. /[[:space:]abc/. |
1845 |
|
|
1846 |
|
21. Added some code, conditional on #ifdef VPCOMPAT, to make life easier for |
1847 |
|
compiling PCRE for use with Virtual Pascal. |
1848 |
|
|
1849 |
|
22. Small fix to the Makefile to make it work properly if the build is done |
1850 |
|
outside the source tree. |
1851 |
|
|
1852 |
|
23. Added a new extension: a condition to go with recursion. If a conditional |
1853 |
|
subpattern starts with (?(R) the "true" branch is used if recursion has |
1854 |
|
happened, whereas the "false" branch is used only at the top level. |
1855 |
|
|
1856 |
|
24. When there was a very long string of literal characters (over 255 bytes |
1857 |
|
without UTF support, over 250 bytes with UTF support), the computation of how |
1858 |
|
much memory was required could be incorrect, leading to segfaults or other |
1859 |
|
strange effects. |
1860 |
|
|
1861 |
|
25. PCRE was incorrectly assuming anchoring (either to start of subject or to |
1862 |
|
start of line for a non-DOTALL pattern) when a pattern started with (.*) and |
1863 |
|
there was a subsequent back reference to those brackets. This meant that, for |
1864 |
|
example, /(.*)\d+\1/ failed to match "abc123bc". Unfortunately, it isn't |
1865 |
|
possible to check for precisely this case. All we can do is abandon the |
1866 |
|
optimization if .* occurs inside capturing brackets when there are any back |
1867 |
|
references whatsoever. (See below for a better fix that came later.) |
1868 |
|
|
1869 |
|
26. The handling of the optimization for finding the first character of a |
1870 |
|
non-anchored pattern, and for finding a character that is required later in the |
1871 |
|
match were failing in some cases. This didn't break the matching; it just |
1872 |
|
failed to optimize when it could. The way this is done has been re-implemented. |
1873 |
|
|
1874 |
|
27. Fixed typo in error message for invalid (?R item (it said "(?p"). |
1875 |
|
|
1876 |
|
28. Added a new feature that provides some of the functionality that Perl |
1877 |
|
provides with (?{...}). The facility is termed a "callout". The way it is done |
1878 |
|
in PCRE is for the caller to provide an optional function, by setting |
1879 |
|
pcre_callout to its entry point. Like pcre_malloc and pcre_free, this is a |
1880 |
|
global variable. By default it is unset, which disables all calling out. To get |
1881 |
|
the function called, the regex must include (?C) at appropriate points. This |
1882 |
|
is, in fact, equivalent to (?C0), and any number <= 255 may be given with (?C). |
1883 |
|
This provides a means of identifying different callout points. When PCRE |
1884 |
|
reaches such a point in the regex, if pcre_callout has been set, the external |
1885 |
|
function is called. It is provided with data in a structure called |
1886 |
|
pcre_callout_block, which is defined in pcre.h. If the function returns 0, |
1887 |
|
matching continues; if it returns a non-zero value, the match at the current |
1888 |
|
point fails. However, backtracking will occur if possible. [This was changed |
1889 |
|
later and other features added - see item 49 below.] |
1890 |
|
|
1891 |
|
29. pcretest is upgraded to test the callout functionality. It provides a |
1892 |
|
callout function that displays information. By default, it shows the start of |
1893 |
|
the match and the current position in the text. There are some new data escapes |
1894 |
|
to vary what happens: |
1895 |
|
|
1896 |
|
\C+ in addition, show current contents of captured substrings |
1897 |
|
\C- do not supply a callout function |
1898 |
|
\C!n return 1 when callout number n is reached |
1899 |
|
\C!n!m return 1 when callout number n is reached for the mth time |
1900 |
|
|
1901 |
|
30. If pcregrep was called with the -l option and just a single file name, it |
1902 |
|
output "<stdin>" if a match was found, instead of the file name. |
1903 |
|
|
1904 |
|
31. Improve the efficiency of the POSIX API to PCRE. If the number of capturing |
1905 |
|
slots is less than POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD, use a block on the stack to pass to |
1906 |
|
pcre_exec(). This saves a malloc/free per call. The default value of |
1907 |
|
POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD is 10; it can be changed by --with-posix-malloc-threshold |
1908 |
|
when configuring. |
1909 |
|
|
1910 |
|
32. The default maximum size of a compiled pattern is 64K. There have been a |
1911 |
|
few cases of people hitting this limit. The code now uses macros to handle the |
1912 |
|
storing of links as offsets within the compiled pattern. It defaults to 2-byte |
1913 |
|
links, but this can be changed to 3 or 4 bytes by --with-link-size when |
1914 |
|
configuring. Tests 2 and 5 work only with 2-byte links because they output |
1915 |
|
debugging information about compiled patterns. |
1916 |
|
|
1917 |
|
33. Internal code re-arrangements: |
1918 |
|
|
1919 |
|
(a) Moved the debugging function for printing out a compiled regex into |
1920 |
|
its own source file (printint.c) and used #include to pull it into |
1921 |
|
pcretest.c and, when DEBUG is defined, into pcre.c, instead of having two |
1922 |
|
separate copies. |
1923 |
|
|
1924 |
|
(b) Defined the list of op-code names for debugging as a macro in |
1925 |
|
internal.h so that it is next to the definition of the opcodes. |
1926 |
|
|
1927 |
|
(c) Defined a table of op-code lengths for simpler skipping along compiled |
1928 |
|
code. This is again a macro in internal.h so that it is next to the |
1929 |
|
definition of the opcodes. |
1930 |
|
|
1931 |
|
34. Added support for recursive calls to individual subpatterns, along the |
1932 |
|
lines of Robin Houston's patch (but implemented somewhat differently). |
1933 |
|
|
1934 |
|
35. Further mods to the Makefile to help Win32. Also, added code to pcregrep to |
1935 |
|
allow it to read and process whole directories in Win32. This code was |
1936 |
|
contributed by Lionel Fourquaux; it has not been tested by me. |
1937 |
|
|
1938 |
|
36. Added support for named subpatterns. The Python syntax (?P<name>...) is |
1939 |
|
used to name a group. Names consist of alphanumerics and underscores, and must |
1940 |
|
be unique. Back references use the syntax (?P=name) and recursive calls use |
1941 |
|
(?P>name) which is a PCRE extension to the Python extension. Groups still have |
1942 |
|
numbers. The function pcre_fullinfo() can be used after compilation to extract |
1943 |
|
a name/number map. There are three relevant calls: |
1944 |
|
|
1945 |
|
PCRE_INFO_NAMEENTRYSIZE yields the size of each entry in the map |
1946 |
|
PCRE_INFO_NAMECOUNT yields the number of entries |
1947 |
|
PCRE_INFO_NAMETABLE yields a pointer to the map. |
1948 |
|
|
1949 |
|
The map is a vector of fixed-size entries. The size of each entry depends on |
1950 |
|
the length of the longest name used. The first two bytes of each entry are the |
1951 |
|
group number, most significant byte first. There follows the corresponding |
1952 |
|
name, zero terminated. The names are in alphabetical order. |
1953 |
|
|
1954 |
|
37. Make the maximum literal string in the compiled code 250 for the non-UTF-8 |
1955 |
|
case instead of 255. Making it the same both with and without UTF-8 support |
1956 |
|
means that the same test output works with both. |
1957 |
|
|
1958 |
|
38. There was a case of malloc(0) in the POSIX testing code in pcretest. Avoid |
1959 |
|
calling malloc() with a zero argument. |
1960 |
|
|
1961 |
|
39. Change 25 above had to resort to a heavy-handed test for the .* anchoring |
1962 |
|
optimization. I've improved things by keeping a bitmap of backreferences with |
1963 |
|
numbers 1-31 so that if .* occurs inside capturing brackets that are not in |
1964 |
|
fact referenced, the optimization can be applied. It is unlikely that a |
1965 |
|
relevant occurrence of .* (i.e. one which might indicate anchoring or forcing |
1966 |
|
the match to follow \n) will appear inside brackets with a number greater than |
1967 |
|
31, but if it does, any back reference > 31 suppresses the optimization. |
1968 |
|
|
1969 |
|
40. Added a new compile-time option PCRE_NO_AUTO_CAPTURE. This has the effect |
1970 |
|
of disabling numbered capturing parentheses. Any opening parenthesis that is |
1971 |
|
not followed by ? behaves as if it were followed by ?: but named parentheses |
1972 |
|
can still be used for capturing (and they will acquire numbers in the usual |
1973 |
|
way). |
1974 |
|
|
1975 |
|
41. Redesigned the return codes from the match() function into yes/no/error so |
1976 |
|
that errors can be passed back from deep inside the nested calls. A malloc |
1977 |
|
failure while inside a recursive subpattern call now causes the |
1978 |
|
PCRE_ERROR_NOMEMORY return instead of quietly going wrong. |
1979 |
|
|
1980 |
|
42. It is now possible to set a limit on the number of times the match() |
1981 |
|
function is called in a call to pcre_exec(). This facility makes it possible to |
1982 |
|
limit the amount of recursion and backtracking, though not in a directly |
1983 |
|
obvious way, because the match() function is used in a number of different |
1984 |
|
circumstances. The count starts from zero for each position in the subject |
1985 |
|
string (for non-anchored patterns). The default limit is, for compatibility, a |
1986 |
|
large number, namely 10 000 000. You can change this in two ways: |
1987 |
|
|
1988 |
|
(a) When configuring PCRE before making, you can use --with-match-limit=n |
1989 |
|
to set a default value for the compiled library. |
1990 |
|
|
1991 |
|
(b) For each call to pcre_exec(), you can pass a pcre_extra block in which |
1992 |
|
a different value is set. See 45 below. |
1993 |
|
|
1994 |
|
If the limit is exceeded, pcre_exec() returns PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT. |
1995 |
|
|
1996 |
|
43. Added a new function pcre_config(int, void *) to enable run-time extraction |
1997 |
|
of things that can be changed at compile time. The first argument specifies |
1998 |
|
what is wanted and the second points to where the information is to be placed. |
1999 |
|
The current list of available information is: |
2000 |
|
|
2001 |
|
PCRE_CONFIG_UTF8 |
2002 |
|
|
2003 |
|
The output is an integer that is set to one if UTF-8 support is available; |
2004 |
|
otherwise it is set to zero. |
2005 |
|
|
2006 |
|
PCRE_CONFIG_NEWLINE |
2007 |
|
|
2008 |
|
The output is an integer that it set to the value of the code that is used for |
2009 |
|
newline. It is either LF (10) or CR (13). |
2010 |
|
|
2011 |
|
PCRE_CONFIG_LINK_SIZE |
2012 |
|
|
2013 |
|
The output is an integer that contains the number of bytes used for internal |
2014 |
|
linkage in compiled expressions. The value is 2, 3, or 4. See item 32 above. |
2015 |
|
|
2016 |
|
PCRE_CONFIG_POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD |
2017 |
|
|
2018 |
|
The output is an integer that contains the threshold above which the POSIX |
2019 |
|
interface uses malloc() for output vectors. See item 31 above. |
2020 |
|
|
2021 |
|
PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT |
2022 |
|
|
2023 |
|
The output is an unsigned integer that contains the default limit of the number |
2024 |
|
of match() calls in a pcre_exec() execution. See 42 above. |
2025 |
|
|
2026 |
|
44. pcretest has been upgraded by the addition of the -C option. This causes it |
2027 |
|
to extract all the available output from the new pcre_config() function, and to |
2028 |
|
output it. The program then exits immediately. |
2029 |
|
|
2030 |
|
45. A need has arisen to pass over additional data with calls to pcre_exec() in |
2031 |
|
order to support additional features. One way would have been to define |
2032 |
|
pcre_exec2() (for example) with extra arguments, but this would not have been |
2033 |
|
extensible, and would also have required all calls to the original function to |
2034 |
|
be mapped to the new one. Instead, I have chosen to extend the mechanism that |
2035 |
|
is used for passing in "extra" data from pcre_study(). |
2036 |
|
|
2037 |
|
The pcre_extra structure is now exposed and defined in pcre.h. It currently |
2038 |
|
contains the following fields: |
2039 |
|
|
2040 |
|
flags a bitmap indicating which of the following fields are set |
2041 |
|
study_data opaque data from pcre_study() |
2042 |
|
match_limit a way of specifying a limit on match() calls for a specific |
2043 |
|
call to pcre_exec() |
2044 |
|
callout_data data for callouts (see 49 below) |
2045 |
|
|
2046 |
|
The flag bits are also defined in pcre.h, and are |
2047 |
|
|
2048 |
|
PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA |
2049 |
|
PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT |
2050 |
|
PCRE_EXTRA_CALLOUT_DATA |
2051 |
|
|
2052 |
|
The pcre_study() function now returns one of these new pcre_extra blocks, with |
2053 |
|
the actual study data pointed to by the study_data field, and the |
2054 |
|
PCRE_EXTRA_STUDY_DATA flag set. This can be passed directly to pcre_exec() as |
2055 |
|
before. That is, this change is entirely upwards-compatible and requires no |
2056 |
|
change to existing code. |
2057 |
|
|
2058 |
|
If you want to pass in additional data to pcre_exec(), you can either place it |
2059 |
|
in a pcre_extra block provided by pcre_study(), or create your own pcre_extra |
2060 |
|
block. |
2061 |
|
|
2062 |
|
46. pcretest has been extended to test the PCRE_EXTRA_MATCH_LIMIT feature. If a |
2063 |
|
data string contains the escape sequence \M, pcretest calls pcre_exec() several |
2064 |
|
times with different match limits, until it finds the minimum value needed for |
2065 |
|
pcre_exec() to complete. The value is then output. This can be instructive; for |
2066 |
|
most simple matches the number is quite small, but for pathological cases it |
2067 |
|
gets very large very quickly. |
2068 |
|
|
2069 |
|
47. There's a new option for pcre_fullinfo() called PCRE_INFO_STUDYSIZE. It |
2070 |
|
returns the size of the data block pointed to by the study_data field in a |
2071 |
|
pcre_extra block, that is, the value that was passed as the argument to |
2072 |
|
pcre_malloc() when PCRE was getting memory in which to place the information |
2073 |
|
created by pcre_study(). The fourth argument should point to a size_t variable. |
2074 |
|
pcretest has been extended so that this information is shown after a successful |
2075 |
|
pcre_study() call when information about the compiled regex is being displayed. |
2076 |
|
|
2077 |
|
48. Cosmetic change to Makefile: there's no need to have / after $(DESTDIR) |
2078 |
|
because what follows is always an absolute path. (Later: it turns out that this |
2079 |
|
is more than cosmetic for MinGW, because it doesn't like empty path |
2080 |
|
components.) |
2081 |
|
|
2082 |
|
49. Some changes have been made to the callout feature (see 28 above): |
2083 |
|
|
2084 |
|
(i) A callout function now has three choices for what it returns: |
2085 |
|
|
2086 |
|
0 => success, carry on matching |
2087 |
|
> 0 => failure at this point, but backtrack if possible |
2088 |
|
< 0 => serious error, return this value from pcre_exec() |
2089 |
|
|
2090 |
|
Negative values should normally be chosen from the set of PCRE_ERROR_xxx |
2091 |
|
values. In particular, returning PCRE_ERROR_NOMATCH forces a standard |
2092 |
|
"match failed" error. The error number PCRE_ERROR_CALLOUT is reserved for |
2093 |
|
use by callout functions. It will never be used by PCRE itself. |
2094 |
|
|
2095 |
|
(ii) The pcre_extra structure (see 45 above) has a void * field called |
2096 |
|
callout_data, with corresponding flag bit PCRE_EXTRA_CALLOUT_DATA. The |
2097 |
|
pcre_callout_block structure has a field of the same name. The contents of |
2098 |
|
the field passed in the pcre_extra structure are passed to the callout |
2099 |
|
function in the corresponding field in the callout block. This makes it |
2100 |
|
easier to use the same callout-containing regex from multiple threads. For |
2101 |
|
testing, the pcretest program has a new data escape |
2102 |
|
|
2103 |
|
\C*n pass the number n (may be negative) as callout_data |
2104 |
|
|
2105 |
|
If the callout function in pcretest receives a non-zero value as |
2106 |
|
callout_data, it returns that value. |
2107 |
|
|
2108 |
|
50. Makefile wasn't handling CFLAGS properly when compiling dftables. Also, |
2109 |
|
there were some redundant $(CFLAGS) in commands that are now specified as |
2110 |
|
$(LINK), which already includes $(CFLAGS). |
2111 |
|
|
2112 |
|
51. Extensions to UTF-8 support are listed below. These all apply when (a) PCRE |
2113 |
|
has been compiled with UTF-8 support *and* pcre_compile() has been compiled |
2114 |
|
with the PCRE_UTF8 flag. Patterns that are compiled without that flag assume |
2115 |
|
one-byte characters throughout. Note that case-insensitive matching applies |
2116 |
|
only to characters whose values are less than 256. PCRE doesn't support the |
2117 |
|
notion of cases for higher-valued characters. |
2118 |
|
|
2119 |
|
(i) A character class whose characters are all within 0-255 is handled as |
2120 |
|
a bit map, and the map is inverted for negative classes. Previously, a |
2121 |
|
character > 255 always failed to match such a class; however it should |
2122 |
|
match if the class was a negative one (e.g. [^ab]). This has been fixed. |
2123 |
|
|
2124 |
|
(ii) A negated character class with a single character < 255 is coded as |
2125 |
|
"not this character" (OP_NOT). This wasn't working properly when the test |
2126 |
|
character was multibyte, either singly or repeated. |
2127 |
|
|
2128 |
|
(iii) Repeats of multibyte characters are now handled correctly in UTF-8 |
2129 |
|
mode, for example: \x{100}{2,3}. |
2130 |
|
|
2131 |
|
(iv) The character escapes \b, \B, \d, \D, \s, \S, \w, and \W (either |
2132 |
|
singly or repeated) now correctly test multibyte characters. However, |
2133 |
|
PCRE doesn't recognize any characters with values greater than 255 as |
2134 |
|
digits, spaces, or word characters. Such characters always match \D, \S, |
2135 |
|
and \W, and never match \d, \s, or \w. |
2136 |
|
|
2137 |
|
(v) Classes may now contain characters and character ranges with values |
2138 |
|
greater than 255. For example: [ab\x{100}-\x{400}]. |
2139 |
|
|
2140 |
|
(vi) pcregrep now has a --utf-8 option (synonym -u) which makes it call |
2141 |
|
PCRE in UTF-8 mode. |
2142 |
|
|
2143 |
|
52. The info request value PCRE_INFO_FIRSTCHAR has been renamed |
2144 |
|
PCRE_INFO_FIRSTBYTE because it is a byte value. However, the old name is |
2145 |
|
retained for backwards compatibility. (Note that LASTLITERAL is also a byte |
2146 |
|
value.) |
2147 |
|
|
2148 |
|
53. The single man page has become too large. I have therefore split it up into |
2149 |
|
a number of separate man pages. These also give rise to individual HTML pages; |
2150 |
|
these are now put in a separate directory, and there is an index.html page that |
2151 |
|
lists them all. Some hyperlinking between the pages has been installed. |
2152 |
|
|
2153 |
|
54. Added convenience functions for handling named capturing parentheses. |
2154 |
|
|
2155 |
|
55. Unknown escapes inside character classes (e.g. [\M]) and escapes that |
2156 |
|
aren't interpreted therein (e.g. [\C]) are literals in Perl. This is now also |
2157 |
|
true in PCRE, except when the PCRE_EXTENDED option is set, in which case they |
2158 |
|
are faulted. |
2159 |
|
|
2160 |
|
56. Introduced HOST_CC and HOST_CFLAGS which can be set in the environment when |
2161 |
|
calling configure. These values are used when compiling the dftables.c program |
2162 |
|
which is run to generate the source of the default character tables. They |
2163 |
|
default to the values of CC and CFLAGS. If you are cross-compiling PCRE, |
2164 |
|
you will need to set these values. |
2165 |
|
|
2166 |
|
57. Updated the building process for Windows DLL, as provided by Fred Cox. |
2167 |
|
|
2168 |
|
|
2169 |
|
Version 3.9 02-Jan-02 |
2170 |
|
--------------------- |
2171 |
|
|
2172 |
|
1. A bit of extraneous text had somehow crept into the pcregrep documentation. |
2173 |
|
|
2174 |
|
2. If --disable-static was given, the building process failed when trying to |
2175 |
|
build pcretest and pcregrep. (For some reason it was using libtool to compile |
2176 |
|
them, which is not right, as they aren't part of the library.) |
2177 |
|
|
2178 |
|
|
2179 |
|
Version 3.8 18-Dec-01 |
2180 |
|
--------------------- |
2181 |
|
|
2182 |
|
1. The experimental UTF-8 code was completely screwed up. It was packing the |
2183 |
|
bytes in the wrong order. How dumb can you get? |
2184 |
|
|
2185 |
|
|
2186 |
|
Version 3.7 29-Oct-01 |
2187 |
|
--------------------- |
2188 |
|
|
2189 |
|
1. In updating pcretest to check change 1 of version 3.6, I screwed up. |
2190 |
|
This caused pcretest, when used on the test data, to segfault. Unfortunately, |
2191 |
|
this didn't happen under Solaris 8, where I normally test things. |
2192 |
|
|
2193 |
|
2. The Makefile had to be changed to make it work on BSD systems, where 'make' |
2194 |
|
doesn't seem to recognize that ./xxx and xxx are the same file. (This entry |
2195 |
|
isn't in ChangeLog distributed with 3.7 because I forgot when I hastily made |
2196 |
|
this fix an hour or so after the initial 3.7 release.) |
2197 |
|
|
2198 |
|
|
2199 |
|
Version 3.6 23-Oct-01 |
2200 |
|
--------------------- |
2201 |
|
|
2202 |
|
1. Crashed with /(sens|respons)e and \1ibility/ and "sense and sensibility" if |
2203 |
|
offsets passed as NULL with zero offset count. |
2204 |
|
|
2205 |
|
2. The config.guess and config.sub files had not been updated when I moved to |
2206 |
|
the latest autoconf. |
2207 |
|
|
2208 |
|
|
2209 |
|
Version 3.5 15-Aug-01 |
2210 |
|
--------------------- |
2211 |
|
|
2212 |
|
1. Added some missing #if !defined NOPOSIX conditionals in pcretest.c that |
2213 |
|
had been forgotten. |
2214 |
|
|
2215 |
|
2. By using declared but undefined structures, we can avoid using "void" |
2216 |
|
definitions in pcre.h while keeping the internal definitions of the structures |
2217 |
|
private. |
2218 |
|
|
2219 |
|
3. The distribution is now built using autoconf 2.50 and libtool 1.4. From a |
2220 |
|
user point of view, this means that both static and shared libraries are built |
2221 |
|
by default, but this can be individually controlled. More of the work of |
2222 |
|
handling this static/shared cases is now inside libtool instead of PCRE's make |
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file. |
2224 |
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|
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4. The pcretest utility is now installed along with pcregrep because it is |
2226 |
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useful for users (to test regexs) and by doing this, it automatically gets |
2227 |
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relinked by libtool. The documentation has been turned into a man page, so |
2228 |
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there are now .1, .txt, and .html versions in /doc. |
2229 |
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|
2230 |
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5. Upgrades to pcregrep: |
2231 |
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(i) Added long-form option names like gnu grep. |
2232 |
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(ii) Added --help to list all options with an explanatory phrase. |
2233 |
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(iii) Added -r, --recursive to recurse into sub-directories. |
2234 |
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(iv) Added -f, --file to read patterns from a file. |
2235 |
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|
2236 |
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6. pcre_exec() was referring to its "code" argument before testing that |
2237 |
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argument for NULL (and giving an error if it was NULL). |
2238 |
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|
2239 |
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7. Upgraded Makefile.in to allow for compiling in a different directory from |
2240 |
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the source directory. |
2241 |
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|
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8. Tiny buglet in pcretest: when pcre_fullinfo() was called to retrieve the |
2243 |
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options bits, the pointer it was passed was to an int instead of to an unsigned |
2244 |
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long int. This mattered only on 64-bit systems. |
2245 |
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|
2246 |
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9. Fixed typo (3.4/1) in pcre.h again. Sigh. I had changed pcre.h (which is |
2247 |
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generated) instead of pcre.in, which it its source. Also made the same change |
2248 |
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in several of the .c files. |
2249 |
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|
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10. A new release of gcc defines printf() as a macro, which broke pcretest |
2251 |
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because it had an ifdef in the middle of a string argument for printf(). Fixed |
2252 |
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by using separate calls to printf(). |
2253 |
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|
2254 |
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11. Added --enable-newline-is-cr and --enable-newline-is-lf to the configure |
2255 |
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script, to force use of CR or LF instead of \n in the source. On non-Unix |
2256 |
|
systems, the value can be set in config.h. |
2257 |
|
|
2258 |
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12. The limit of 200 on non-capturing parentheses is a _nesting_ limit, not an |
2259 |
|
absolute limit. Changed the text of the error message to make this clear, and |
2260 |
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likewise updated the man page. |
2261 |
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|
2262 |
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13. The limit of 99 on the number of capturing subpatterns has been removed. |
2263 |
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The new limit is 65535, which I hope will not be a "real" limit. |
2264 |
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|
2265 |
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|
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Version 3.4 22-Aug-00 |
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|
2269 |
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1. Fixed typo in pcre.h: unsigned const char * changed to const unsigned char *. |
2270 |
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|
2271 |
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2. Diagnose condition (?(0) as an error instead of crashing on matching. |
2272 |
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|
2273 |
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|
2274 |
Version 3.3 01-Aug-00 |
Version 3.3 01-Aug-00 |
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