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ChangeLog for PCRE |
ChangeLog for PCRE |
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Version 7.1 05-Mar-07 |
Version 7.6 14-Jan-08 |
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1. Applied Bob Rossi and Daniel G's patches to convert the build system to one |
1. A class with a very large number of characters with codepoints greater |
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that is more "standard", making use of automake and other autotools. There |
than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course), caused a buffer overflow. |
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Version 7.5 10-Jan-08 |
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1. Applied a patch from Craig: "This patch makes it possible to 'ignore' |
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values in parens when parsing an RE using the C++ wrapper." |
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2. Negative specials like \S did not work in character classes in UTF-8 mode. |
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Characters greater than 255 were excluded from the class instead of being |
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included. |
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3. The same bug as (2) above applied to negated POSIX classes such as |
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[:^space:]. |
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4. PCRECPP_STATIC was referenced in pcrecpp_internal.h, but nowhere was it |
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defined or documented. It seems to have been a typo for PCRE_STATIC, so |
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I have changed it. |
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5. The construct (?&) was not diagnosed as a syntax error (it referenced the |
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first named subpattern) and a construct such as (?&a) would reference the |
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first named subpattern whose name started with "a" (in other words, the |
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length check was missing). Both these problems are fixed. "Subpattern name |
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expected" is now given for (?&) (a zero-length name), and this patch also |
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makes it give the same error for \k'' (previously it complained that that |
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was a reference to a non-existent subpattern). |
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6. The erroneous patterns (?+-a) and (?-+a) give different error messages; |
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this is right because (?- can be followed by option settings as well as by |
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digits. I have, however, made the messages clearer. |
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7. Patterns such as (?(1)a|b) (a pattern that contains fewer subpatterns |
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than the number used in the conditional) now cause a compile-time error. |
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This is actually not compatible with Perl, which accepts such patterns, but |
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treats the conditional as always being FALSE (as PCRE used to), but it |
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seems to me that giving a diagnostic is better. |
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8. Change "alphameric" to the more common word "alphanumeric" in comments |
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and messages. |
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9. Fix two occurrences of "backslash" in comments that should have been |
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"backspace". |
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10. Remove two redundant lines of code that can never be obeyed (their function |
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was moved elsewhere). |
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11. The program that makes PCRE's Unicode character property table had a bug |
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which caused it to generate incorrect table entries for sequences of |
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characters that have the same character type, but are in different scripts. |
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It amalgamated them into a single range, with the script of the first of |
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them. In other words, some characters were in the wrong script. There were |
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thirteen such cases, affecting characters in the following ranges: |
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U+002b0 - U+002c1 |
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U+0060c - U+0060d |
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U+0061e - U+00612 |
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U+0064b - U+0065e |
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U+0074d - U+0076d |
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U+01800 - U+01805 |
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U+01d00 - U+01d77 |
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U+01d9b - U+01dbf |
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U+0200b - U+0200f |
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U+030fc - U+030fe |
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U+03260 - U+0327f |
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U+0fb46 - U+0fbb1 |
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U+10450 - U+1049d |
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12. The -o option (show only the matching part of a line) for pcregrep was not |
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compatible with GNU grep in that, if there was more than one match in a |
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line, it showed only the first of them. It now behaves in the same way as |
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GNU grep. |
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13. If the -o and -v options were combined for pcregrep, it printed a blank |
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line for every non-matching line. GNU grep prints nothing, and pcregrep now |
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does the same. The return code can be used to tell if there were any |
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non-matching lines. |
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14. Added --file-offsets and --line-offsets to pcregrep. |
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15. The pattern (?=something)(?R) was not being diagnosed as a potentially |
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infinitely looping recursion. The bug was that positive lookaheads were not |
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being skipped when checking for a possible empty match (negative lookaheads |
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and both kinds of lookbehind were skipped). |
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16. Fixed two typos in the Windows-only code in pcregrep.c, and moved the |
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inclusion of <windows.h> to before rather than after the definition of |
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INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES (patch from David Byron). |
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17. Specifying a possessive quantifier with a specific limit for a Unicode |
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character property caused pcre_compile() to compile bad code, which led at |
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runtime to PCRE_ERROR_INTERNAL (-14). Examples of patterns that caused this |
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are: /\p{Zl}{2,3}+/8 and /\p{Cc}{2}+/8. It was the possessive "+" that |
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caused the error; without that there was no problem. |
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18. Added --enable-pcregrep-libz and --enable-pcregrep-libbz2. |
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19. Added --enable-pcretest-libreadline. |
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20. In pcrecpp.cc, the variable 'count' was incremented twice in |
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RE::GlobalReplace(). As a result, the number of replacements returned was |
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double what it should be. I removed one of the increments, but Craig sent a |
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later patch that removed the other one (the right fix) and added unit tests |
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that check the return values (which was not done before). |
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21. Several CMake things: |
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(1) Arranged that, when cmake is used on Unix, the libraries end up with |
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the names libpcre and libpcreposix, not just pcre and pcreposix. |
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(2) The above change means that pcretest and pcregrep are now correctly |
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linked with the newly-built libraries, not previously installed ones. |
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(3) Added PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBREADLINE, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBZ, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBBZ2. |
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22. In UTF-8 mode, with newline set to "any", a pattern such as .*a.*=.b.* |
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crashed when matching a string such as a\x{2029}b (note that \x{2029} is a |
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UTF-8 newline character). The key issue is that the pattern starts .*; |
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this means that the match must be either at the beginning, or after a |
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newline. The bug was in the code for advancing after a failed match and |
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checking that the new position followed a newline. It was not taking |
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account of UTF-8 characters correctly. |
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23. PCRE was behaving differently from Perl in the way it recognized POSIX |
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character classes. PCRE was not treating the sequence [:...:] as a |
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character class unless the ... were all letters. Perl, however, seems to |
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allow any characters between [: and :], though of course it rejects as |
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unknown any "names" that contain non-letters, because all the known class |
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names consist only of letters. Thus, Perl gives an error for [[:1234:]], |
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for example, whereas PCRE did not - it did not recognize a POSIX character |
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class. This seemed a bit dangerous, so the code has been changed to be |
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closer to Perl. The behaviour is not identical to Perl, because PCRE will |
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diagnose an unknown class for, for example, [[:l\ower:]] where Perl will |
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treat it as [[:lower:]]. However, PCRE does now give "unknown" errors where |
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Perl does, and where it didn't before. |
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24. Rewrite so as to remove the single use of %n from pcregrep because in some |
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Windows environments %n is disabled by default. |
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Version 7.4 21-Sep-07 |
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1. Change 7.3/28 was implemented for classes by looking at the bitmap. This |
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means that a class such as [\s] counted as "explicit reference to CR or |
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LF". That isn't really right - the whole point of the change was to try to |
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help when there was an actual mention of one of the two characters. So now |
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the change happens only if \r or \n (or a literal CR or LF) character is |
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encountered. |
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2. The 32-bit options word was also used for 6 internal flags, but the numbers |
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of both had grown to the point where there were only 3 bits left. |
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Fortunately, there was spare space in the data structure, and so I have |
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moved the internal flags into a new 16-bit field to free up more option |
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bits. |
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3. The appearance of (?J) at the start of a pattern set the DUPNAMES option, |
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but did not set the internal JCHANGED flag - either of these is enough to |
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control the way the "get" function works - but the PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED |
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facility is supposed to tell if (?J) was ever used, so now (?J) at the |
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start sets both bits. |
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4. Added options (at build time, compile time, exec time) to change \R from |
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matching any Unicode line ending sequence to just matching CR, LF, or CRLF. |
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5. doc/pcresyntax.html was missing from the distribution. |
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6. Put back the definition of PCRE_ERROR_NULLWSLIMIT, for backward |
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compatibility, even though it is no longer used. |
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7. Added macro for snprintf to pcrecpp_unittest.cc and also for strtoll and |
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strtoull to pcrecpp.cc to select the available functions in WIN32 when the |
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windows.h file is present (where different names are used). [This was |
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reversed later after testing - see 16 below.] |
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8. Changed all #include <config.h> to #include "config.h". There were also |
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some further <pcre.h> cases that I changed to "pcre.h". |
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9. When pcregrep was used with the --colour option, it missed the line ending |
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sequence off the lines that it output. |
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10. It was pointed out to me that arrays of string pointers cause lots of |
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relocations when a shared library is dynamically loaded. A technique of |
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using a single long string with a table of offsets can drastically reduce |
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these. I have refactored PCRE in four places to do this. The result is |
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dramatic: |
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Originally: 290 |
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After changing UCP table: 187 |
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After changing error message table: 43 |
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After changing table of "verbs" 36 |
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After changing table of Posix names 22 |
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Thanks to the folks working on Gregex for glib for this insight. |
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11. --disable-stack-for-recursion caused compiling to fail unless -enable- |
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unicode-properties was also set. |
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12. Updated the tests so that they work when \R is defaulted to ANYCRLF. |
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13. Added checks for ANY and ANYCRLF to pcrecpp.cc where it previously |
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checked only for CRLF. |
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14. Added casts to pcretest.c to avoid compiler warnings. |
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15. Added Craig's patch to various pcrecpp modules to avoid compiler warnings. |
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16. Added Craig's patch to remove the WINDOWS_H tests, that were not working, |
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and instead check for _strtoi64 explicitly, and avoid the use of snprintf() |
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entirely. This removes changes made in 7 above. |
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17. The CMake files have been updated, and there is now more information about |
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building with CMake in the NON-UNIX-USE document. |
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Version 7.3 28-Aug-07 |
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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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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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(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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(d) A pattern like (\P{Yi}{2}\277)? could loop at compile time. |
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24. A repeated \S or \W in UTF-8 mode could give wrong answers when multibyte |
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25. Using pcregrep in multiline, inverted mode (-Mv) caused it to loop. |
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26. Patterns such as [\P{Yi}A] which include \p or \P and just one other |
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character were causing crashes (broken optimization). |
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27. Patterns such as (\P{Yi}*\277)* (group with possible zero repeat containing |
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\p or \P) caused a compile-time loop. |
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28. More problems have arisen in unanchored patterns when CRLF is a valid line |
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break. For example, the unstudied pattern [\r\n]A does not match the string |
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"\r\nA" because change 7.0/46 below moves the current point on by two |
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characters after failing to match at the start. However, the pattern \nA |
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*does* match, because it doesn't start till \n, and if [\r\n]A is studied, |
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the same is true. There doesn't seem any very clean way out of this, but |
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what I have chosen to do makes the common cases work: PCRE now takes note |
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of whether there can be an explicit match for \r or \n anywhere in the |
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pattern, and if so, 7.0/46 no longer applies. As part of this change, |
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there's a new PCRE_INFO_HASCRORLF option for finding out whether a compiled |
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pattern has explicit CR or LF references. |
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29. Added (*CR) etc for changing newline setting at start of pattern. |
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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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is not part of it. |
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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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|
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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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|
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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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|
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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 |
is some re-arrangement of the files and adjustment of comments consequent |
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on this. |
on this. |
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2. I had an email from Eric Raymond about problems translating some of PCRE's |
2. Part of the patch fixed a problem with the pcregrep tests. The test of -r |
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man pages to HTML (despite the fact that I distribute HTML pages, some |
for recursive directory scanning broke on some systems because the files |
470 |
people do their own conversions for various reasons). The problems |
are not scanned in any specific order and on different systems the order |
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concerned the use of low-level troff macros .br and .in. I have therefore |
was different. A call to "sort" has been inserted into RunGrepTest for the |
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removed all such uses from the man pages (some were redundant, some could |
approprate test as a short-term fix. In the longer term there may be an |
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be replaced by .nf/.fi pairs). The maintain/132html script that I use to |
alternative. |
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generate HTML has been updated to handle .nf/.fi and to complain if it |
|
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encounters .br or .in. |
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 |
477 |
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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 |
479 |
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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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|
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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 |
486 |
|
config.h.generic, for the benefit of those who have to compile without |
487 |
|
Autotools (compare pcre.h, which is now distributed as pcre.h.generic). |
488 |
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|
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5. Updated the support (such as it is) for Virtual Pascal, thanks to Stefan |
490 |
|
Weber: (1) pcre_internal.h was missing some function renames; (2) updated |
491 |
|
makevp.bat for the current PCRE, using the additional files |
492 |
|
makevp_c.txt, makevp_l.txt, and pcregexp.pas. |
493 |
|
|
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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 |
496 |
|
copy. The trailing space was an accident, so I've just removed it. |
497 |
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|
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7. Add -Wl,-R... flags in pcre-config.in for *BSD* systems, as I'm told |
499 |
|
that is needed. |
500 |
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|
501 |
|
8. Mark ucp_table (in ucptable.h) and ucp_gentype (in pcre_ucp_searchfuncs.c) |
502 |
|
as "const" (a) because they are and (b) because it helps the PHP |
503 |
|
maintainers who have recently made a script to detect big data structures |
504 |
|
in the php code that should be moved to the .rodata section. I remembered |
505 |
|
to update Builducptable as well, so it won't revert if ucptable.h is ever |
506 |
|
re-created. |
507 |
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|
508 |
|
9. Added some extra #ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8 conditionals into pcretest.c, |
509 |
|
pcre_printint.src, pcre_compile.c, pcre_study.c, and pcre_tables.c, in |
510 |
|
order to be able to cut out the UTF-8 tables in the latter when UTF-8 |
511 |
|
support is not required. This saves 1.5-2K of code, which is important in |
512 |
|
some applications. |
513 |
|
|
514 |
|
Later: more #ifdefs are needed in pcre_ord2utf8.c and pcre_valid_utf8.c |
515 |
|
so as not to refer to the tables, even though these functions will never be |
516 |
|
called when UTF-8 support is disabled. Otherwise there are problems with a |
517 |
|
shared library. |
518 |
|
|
519 |
|
10. Fixed two bugs in the emulated memmove() function in pcre_internal.h: |
520 |
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|
521 |
|
(a) It was defining its arguments as char * instead of void *. |
522 |
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|
523 |
|
(b) It was assuming that all moves were upwards in memory; this was true |
524 |
|
a long time ago when I wrote it, but is no longer the case. |
525 |
|
|
526 |
|
The emulated memove() is provided for those environments that have neither |
527 |
|
memmove() nor bcopy(). I didn't think anyone used it these days, but that |
528 |
|
is clearly not the case, as these two bugs were recently reported. |
529 |
|
|
530 |
|
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 |
532 |
|
pages, and it removes trailing spaces from listed files. It also creates |
533 |
|
pcre.h.generic and config.h.generic from pcre.h and config.h. In the latter |
534 |
|
case, it wraps all the #defines with #ifndefs. This script should be run |
535 |
|
before "make dist". |
536 |
|
|
537 |
|
12. Fixed two fairly obscure bugs concerned with quantified caseless matching |
538 |
|
with Unicode property support. |
539 |
|
|
540 |
|
(a) For a maximizing quantifier, if the two different cases of the |
541 |
|
character were of different lengths in their UTF-8 codings (there are |
542 |
|
some cases like this - I found 11), and the matching function had to |
543 |
|
back up over a mixture of the two cases, it incorrectly assumed they |
544 |
|
were both the same length. |
545 |
|
|
546 |
|
(b) When PCRE was configured to use the heap rather than the stack for |
547 |
|
recursion during matching, it was not correctly preserving the data for |
548 |
|
the other case of a UTF-8 character when checking ahead for a match |
549 |
|
while processing a minimizing repeat. If the check also involved |
550 |
|
matching a wide character, but failed, corruption could cause an |
551 |
|
erroneous result when trying to check for a repeat of the original |
552 |
|
character. |
553 |
|
|
554 |
|
13. Some tidying changes to the testing mechanism: |
555 |
|
|
556 |
|
(a) The RunTest script now detects the internal link size and whether there |
557 |
|
is UTF-8 and UCP support by running ./pcretest -C instead of relying on |
558 |
|
values substituted by "configure". (The RunGrepTest script already did |
559 |
|
this for UTF-8.) The configure.ac script no longer substitutes the |
560 |
|
relevant variables. |
561 |
|
|
562 |
|
(b) The debugging options /B and /D in pcretest show the compiled bytecode |
563 |
|
with length and offset values. This means that the output is different |
564 |
|
for different internal link sizes. Test 2 is skipped for link sizes |
565 |
|
other than 2 because of this, bypassing the problem. Unfortunately, |
566 |
|
there was also a test in test 3 (the locale tests) that used /B and |
567 |
|
failed for link sizes other than 2. Rather than cut the whole test out, |
568 |
|
I have added a new /Z option to pcretest that replaces the length and |
569 |
|
offset values with spaces. This is now used to make test 3 independent |
570 |
|
of link size. (Test 2 will be tidied up later.) |
571 |
|
|
572 |
|
14. If erroroffset was passed as NULL to pcre_compile, it provoked a |
573 |
|
segmentation fault instead of returning the appropriate error message. |
574 |
|
|
575 |
|
15. In multiline mode when the newline sequence was set to "any", the pattern |
576 |
|
^$ would give a match between the \r and \n of a subject such as "A\r\nB". |
577 |
|
This doesn't seem right; it now treats the CRLF combination as the line |
578 |
|
ending, and so does not match in that case. It's only a pattern such as ^$ |
579 |
|
that would hit this one: something like ^ABC$ would have failed after \r |
580 |
|
and then tried again after \r\n. |
581 |
|
|
582 |
|
16. Changed the comparison command for RunGrepTest from "diff -u" to "diff -ub" |
583 |
|
in an attempt to make files that differ only in their line terminators |
584 |
|
compare equal. This works on Linux. |
585 |
|
|
586 |
|
17. Under certain error circumstances pcregrep might try to free random memory |
587 |
|
as it exited. This is now fixed, thanks to valgrind. |
588 |
|
|
589 |
|
19. In pcretest, if the pattern /(?m)^$/g<any> was matched against the string |
590 |
|
"abc\r\n\r\n", it found an unwanted second match after the second \r. This |
591 |
|
was because its rules for how to advance for /g after matching an empty |
592 |
|
string at the end of a line did not allow for this case. They now check for |
593 |
|
it specially. |
594 |
|
|
595 |
|
20. pcretest is supposed to handle patterns and data of any length, by |
596 |
|
extending its buffers when necessary. It was getting this wrong when the |
597 |
|
buffer for a data line had to be extended. |
598 |
|
|
599 |
|
21. Added PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF which is like ANY, but matches only CR, LF, or |
600 |
|
CRLF as a newline sequence. |
601 |
|
|
602 |
|
22. Code for handling Unicode properties in pcre_dfa_exec() wasn't being cut |
603 |
|
out by #ifdef SUPPORT_UCP. This did no harm, as it could never be used, but |
604 |
|
I have nevertheless tidied it up. |
605 |
|
|
606 |
|
23. Added some casts to kill warnings from HP-UX ia64 compiler. |
607 |
|
|
608 |
|
24. Added a man page for pcre-config. |
609 |
|
|
610 |
|
|
611 |
Version 7.0 19-Dec-06 |
Version 7.0 19-Dec-06 |
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