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Version 8.0 02 Jul-08 |
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1. Added support for (*MARK:ARG) and for ARG additions to PRUNE, SKIP, and |
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2. (*ACCEPT) was not working when inside an atomic group. |
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3. Inside a character class, \B is treated as a literal by default, but |
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faulted if PCRE_EXTRA is set. This mimics Perl's behaviour (the -w option |
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causes the error). The code is unchanged, but I tidied the documentation. |
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4. Inside a character class, PCRE always treated \R and \X as literals, |
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whereas Perl faults them if its -w option is set. I have changed PCRE so |
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that it faults them when PCRE_EXTRA is set. |
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5. Added support for \N, which always matches any character other than |
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newline. (It is the same as "." when PCRE_DOTALL is not set.) |
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6. When compiling pcregrep with newer versions of gcc which may have |
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FORTIFY_SOURCE set, several warnings "ignoring return value of 'fwrite', |
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declared with attribute warn_unused_result" were given. Just casting the |
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result to (void) does not stop the warnings; a more elaborate fudge is |
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needed. I've used a macro to implement this. |
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7. Minor change to pcretest.c to avoid a compiler warning. |
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8. Added four artifical Unicode properties to help with an option to make |
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\s etc use properties (see next item). The new properties are: Xan |
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(alphanumeric), Xsp (Perl space), Xps (POSIX space), and Xwd (word). |
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9. Added PCRE_UCP to make \b, \d, \s, \w, and certain POSIX character classes |
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use Unicode properties. (*UCP) at the start of a pattern can be used to set |
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this option. Modified pcretest to add /W to test this facility. Added |
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REG_UCP to make it available via the POSIX interface. |
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10. Added --line-buffered to pcregrep. |
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11. In UTF-8 mode, if a pattern that was compiled with PCRE_CASELESS was |
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studied, and the match started with a letter with a code point greater than |
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127 whose first byte was different to the first byte of the other case of |
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the letter, the other case of this starting letter was not recognized. |
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12. pcreposix.c included pcre.h before including pcre_internal.h. This caused a |
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conflict in the definition of PCRE_EXP_DECL. I have removed the include of |
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pcre.h as pcre_internal.h includes pcre.h itself. (This may be a bit of |
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historical tidying that never got done.) |
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13. If a pattern that was studied started with a repeated Unicode property |
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test, for example, \p{Nd}+, there was the theoretical possibility of |
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setting up an incorrect bitmap of starting bytes, but fortunately it could |
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not have actually happened in practice until change 8 above was made (it |
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added property types that matched character-matching opcodes). |
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14. pcre_study() now recognizes \h, \v, and \R when constructing a bit map of |
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possible starting bytes for non-anchored patterns. |
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Version 8.02 19-Mar-2010 |
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1. The Unicode data tables have been updated to Unicode 5.2.0. |
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2. Added the option --libs-cpp to pcre-config, but only when C++ support is |
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configured. |
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3. Updated the licensing terms in the pcregexp.pas file, as agreed with the |
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original author of that file, following a query about its status. |
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4. On systems that do not have stdint.h (e.g. Solaris), check for and include |
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inttypes.h instead. This fixes a bug that was introduced by change 8.01/8. |
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5. A pattern such as (?&t)*+(?(DEFINE)(?<t>.)) which has a possessive |
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quantifier applied to a forward-referencing subroutine call, could compile |
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incorrect code or give the error "internal error: previously-checked |
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referenced subpattern not found". |
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6. Both MS Visual Studio and Symbian OS have problems with initializing |
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variables to point to external functions. For these systems, therefore, |
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pcre_malloc etc. are now initialized to local functions that call the |
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relevant global functions. |
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7. There were two entries missing in the vectors called coptable and poptable |
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in pcre_dfa_exec.c. This could lead to memory accesses outsize the vectors. |
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I've fixed the data, and added a kludgy way of testing at compile time that |
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the lengths are correct (equal to the number of opcodes). |
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8. Following on from 7, I added a similar kludge to check the length of the |
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eint vector in pcreposix.c. |
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9. Error texts for pcre_compile() are held as one long string to avoid too |
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much relocation at load time. To find a text, the string is searched, |
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counting zeros. There was no check for running off the end of the string, |
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which could happen if a new error number was added without updating the |
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string. |
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10. \K gave a compile-time error if it appeared in a lookbehind assersion. |
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11. \K was not working if it appeared in an atomic group or in a group that |
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was called as a "subroutine", or in an assertion. Perl 5.11 documents that |
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\K is "not well defined" if used in an assertion. PCRE now accepts it if |
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the assertion is positive, but not if it is negative. |
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12. Change 11 fortuitously reduced the size of the stack frame used in the |
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"match()" function of pcre_exec.c by one pointer. Forthcoming |
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implementation of support for (*MARK) will need an extra pointer on the |
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stack; I have reserved it now, so that the stack frame size does not |
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decrease. |
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13. A pattern such as (?P<L1>(?P<L2>0)|(?P>L2)(?P>L1)) in which the only other |
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item in branch that calls a recursion is a subroutine call - as in the |
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second branch in the above example - was incorrectly given the compile- |
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time error "recursive call could loop indefinitely" because pcre_compile() |
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was not correctly checking the subroutine for matching a non-empty string. |
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14. The checks for overrunning compiling workspace could trigger after an |
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overrun had occurred. This is a "should never occur" error, but it can be |
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triggered by pathological patterns such as hundreds of nested parentheses. |
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The checks now trigger 100 bytes before the end of the workspace. |
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15. Fix typo in configure.ac: "srtoq" should be "strtoq". |
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Version 8.01 19-Jan-2010 |
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1. If a pattern contained a conditional subpattern with only one branch (in |
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particular, this includes all (*DEFINE) patterns), a call to pcre_study() |
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computed the wrong minimum data length (which is of course zero for such |
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subpatterns). This could cause incorrect "no match" results. |
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2. For patterns such as (?i)a(?-i)b|c where an option setting at the start of |
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the pattern is reset in the first branch, pcre_compile() failed with |
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"internal error: code overflow at offset...". This happened only when |
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the reset was to the original external option setting. (An optimization |
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abstracts leading options settings into an external setting, which was the |
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cause of this.) |
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3. A pattern such as ^(?!a(*SKIP)b) where a negative assertion contained one |
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of the verbs SKIP, PRUNE, or COMMIT, did not work correctly. When the |
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assertion pattern did not match (meaning that the assertion was true), it |
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was incorrectly treated as false if the SKIP had been reached during the |
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matching. This also applied to assertions used as conditions. |
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4. If an item that is not supported by pcre_dfa_exec() was encountered in an |
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assertion subpattern, including such a pattern used as a condition, |
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unpredictable results occurred, instead of the error return |
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PCRE_ERROR_DFA_UITEM. |
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5. The C++ GlobalReplace function was not working like Perl for the special |
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situation when an empty string is matched. It now does the fancy magic |
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stuff that is necessary. |
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6. In pcre_internal.h, obsolete includes to setjmp.h and stdarg.h have been |
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removed. (These were left over from very, very early versions of PCRE.) |
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7. Some cosmetic changes to the code to make life easier when compiling it |
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(a) Change DEBUG to PCRE_DEBUG. |
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(b) In pcre_compile(), rename the member of the "branch_chain" structure |
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called "current" as "current_branch", to prevent a collision with the |
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Linux macro when compiled as a kernel module. |
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(c) In pcre_study(), rename the function set_bit() as set_table_bit(), to |
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prevent a collision with the Linux macro when compiled as a kernel |
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module. |
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8. In pcre_compile() there are some checks for integer overflows that used to |
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cast potentially large values to (double). This has been changed to that |
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when building, a check for int64_t is made, and if it is found, it is used |
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instead, thus avoiding the use of floating point arithmetic. (There is no |
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other use of FP in PCRE.) If int64_t is not found, the fallback is to |
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double. |
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9. Added two casts to avoid signed/unsigned warnings from VS Studio Express |
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10. Change the standard AC_CHECK_LIB test for libbz2 in configure.ac to a |
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custom one, because of the following reported problem in Windows: |
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- libbz2 uses the Pascal calling convention (WINAPI) for the functions |
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under Win32. |
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- The standard autoconf AC_CHECK_LIB fails to include "bzlib.h", |
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therefore missing the function definition. |
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- The compiler thus generates a "C" signature for the test function. |
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- The linker fails to find the "C" function. |
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- PCRE fails to configure if asked to do so against libbz2. |
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11. When running libtoolize from libtool-2.2.6b as part of autogen.sh, these |
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messages were output: |
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Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and |
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rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree. |
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Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am. |
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I have done both of these things. |
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12. Although pcre_dfa_exec() does not use nearly as much stack as pcre_exec() |
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most of the time, it *can* run out if it is given a pattern that contains a |
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runaway infinite recursion. I updated the discussion in the pcrestack man |
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13. Now that we have gone to the x.xx style of version numbers, the minor |
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version may start with zero. Using 08 or 09 is a bad idea because users |
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might check the value of PCRE_MINOR in their code, and 08 or 09 may be |
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interpreted as invalid octal numbers. I've updated the previous comment in |
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configure.ac, and also added a check that gives an error if 08 or 09 are |
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used. |
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14. Change 8.00/11 was not quite complete: code had been accidentally omitted, |
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causing partial matching to fail when the end of the subject matched \W |
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in a UTF-8 pattern where \W was quantified with a minimum of 3. |
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15. There were some discrepancies between the declarations in pcre_internal.h |
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of _pcre_is_newline(), _pcre_was_newline(), and _pcre_valid_utf8() and |
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their definitions. The declarations used "const uschar *" and the |
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definitions used USPTR. Even though USPTR is normally defined as "const |
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unsigned char *" (and uschar is typedeffed as "unsigned char"), it was |
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reported that: "This difference in casting confuses some C++ compilers, for |
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example, SunCC recognizes above declarations as different functions and |
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generates broken code for hbpcre." I have changed the declarations to use |
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USPTR. |
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16. GNU libtool is named differently on some systems. The autogen.sh script now |
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tries several variants such as glibtoolize (MacOSX) and libtoolize1x |
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17. Applied Craig's patch that fixes an HP aCC compile error in pcre 8.00 |
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(strtoXX undefined when compiling pcrecpp.cc). The patch contains this |
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comment: "Figure out how to create a longlong from a string: strtoll and |
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equivalent. It's not enough to call AC_CHECK_FUNCS: hpux has a strtoll, for |
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instance, but it only takes 2 args instead of 3!" |
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18. A subtle bug concerned with back references has been fixed by a change of |
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specification, with a corresponding code fix. A pattern such as |
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^(xa|=?\1a)+$ which contains a back reference inside the group to which it |
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refers, was giving matches when it shouldn't. For example, xa=xaaa would |
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match that pattern. Interestingly, Perl (at least up to 5.11.3) has the |
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same bug. Such groups have to be quantified to be useful, or contained |
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inside another quantified group. (If there's no repetition, the reference |
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can never match.) The problem arises because, having left the group and |
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moved on to the rest of the pattern, a later failure that backtracks into |
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the group uses the captured value from the final iteration of the group |
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rather than the correct earlier one. I have fixed this in PCRE by forcing |
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any group that contains a reference to itself to be an atomic group; that |
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is, there cannot be any backtracking into it once it has completed. This is |
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similar to recursive and subroutine calls. |
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1. The table for translating pcre_compile() error codes into POSIX error codes |
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was out-of-date, and there was no check on the pcre_compile() error code |
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being within the table. This could lead to an OK return being given in |
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2. Changed the call to open a subject file in pcregrep from fopen(pathname, |
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"r") to fopen(pathname, "rb"), which fixed a problem with some of the tests |
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in a Windows environment. |
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3. The pcregrep --count option prints the count for each file even when it is |
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zero, as does GNU grep. However, pcregrep was also printing all files when |
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--files-with-matches was added. Now, when both options are given, it prints |
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counts only for those files that have at least one match. (GNU grep just |
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prints the file name in this circumstance, but including the count seems |
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more useful - otherwise, why use --count?) Also ensured that the |
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combination -clh just lists non-zero counts, with no names. |
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4. The long form of the pcregrep -F option was incorrectly implemented as |
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--fixed_strings instead of --fixed-strings. This is an incompatible change, |
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but it seems right to fix it, and I didn't think it was worth preserving |
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the old behaviour. |
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5. The command line items --regex=pattern and --regexp=pattern were not |
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recognized by pcregrep, which required --regex pattern or --regexp pattern |
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(with a space rather than an '='). The man page documented the '=' forms, |
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which are compatible with GNU grep; these now work. |
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6. No libpcreposix.pc file was created for pkg-config; there was just |
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libpcre.pc and libpcrecpp.pc. The omission has been rectified. |
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7. Added #ifndef SUPPORT_UCP into the pcre_ucd.c module, to reduce its size |
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when UCP support is not needed, by modifying the Python script that |
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generates it from Unicode data files. This should not matter if the module |
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is correctly used as a library, but I received one complaint about 50K of |
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unwanted data. My guess is that the person linked everything into his |
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program rather than using a library. Anyway, it does no harm. |
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8. A pattern such as /\x{123}{2,2}+/8 was incorrectly compiled; the trigger |
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was a minimum greater than 1 for a wide character in a possessive |
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repetition. The same bug could also affect patterns like /(\x{ff}{0,2})*/8 |
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which had an unlimited repeat of a nested, fixed maximum repeat of a wide |
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character. Chaos in the form of incorrect output or a compiling loop could |
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result. |
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9. The restrictions on what a pattern can contain when partial matching is |
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requested for pcre_exec() have been removed. All patterns can now be |
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partially matched by this function. In addition, if there are at least two |
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slots in the offset vector, the offset of the earliest inspected character |
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for the match and the offset of the end of the subject are set in them when |
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PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL is returned. |
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10. Partial matching has been split into two forms: PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT, which is |
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synonymous with PCRE_PARTIAL, for backwards compatibility, and |
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PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD, which causes a partial match to supersede a full match, |
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and may be more useful for multi-segment matching. |
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11. Partial matching with pcre_exec() is now more intuitive. A partial match |
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used to be given if ever the end of the subject was reached; now it is |
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given only if matching could not proceed because another character was |
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needed. This makes a difference in some odd cases such as Z(*FAIL) with the |
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string "Z", which now yields "no match" instead of "partial match". In the |
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case of pcre_dfa_exec(), "no match" is given if every matching path for the |
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final character ended with (*FAIL). |
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12. Restarting a match using pcre_dfa_exec() after a partial match did not work |
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if the pattern had a "must contain" character that was already found in the |
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earlier partial match, unless partial matching was again requested. For |
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example, with the pattern /dog.(body)?/, the "must contain" character is |
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"g". If the first part-match was for the string "dog", restarting with |
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"sbody" failed. This bug has been fixed. |
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13. The string returned by pcre_dfa_exec() after a partial match has been |
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changed so that it starts at the first inspected character rather than the |
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first character of the match. This makes a difference only if the pattern |
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starts with a lookbehind assertion or \b or \B (\K is not supported by |
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pcre_dfa_exec()). It's an incompatible change, but it makes the two |
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matching functions compatible, and I think it's the right thing to do. |
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14. Added a pcredemo man page, created automatically from the pcredemo.c file, |
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so that the demonstration program is easily available in environments where |
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PCRE has not been installed from source. |
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15. Arranged to add -DPCRE_STATIC to cflags in libpcre.pc, libpcreposix.cp, |
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libpcrecpp.pc and pcre-config when PCRE is not compiled as a shared |
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library. |
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16. Added REG_UNGREEDY to the pcreposix interface, at the request of a user. |
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It maps to PCRE_UNGREEDY. It is not, of course, POSIX-compatible, but it |
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is not the first non-POSIX option to be added. Clearly some people find |
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these options useful. |
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17. If a caller to the POSIX matching function regexec() passes a non-zero |
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value for nmatch with a NULL value for pmatch, the value of |
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nmatch is forced to zero. |
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18. RunGrepTest did not have a test for the availability of the -u option of |
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the diff command, as RunTest does. It now checks in the same way as |
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RunTest, and also checks for the -b option. |
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19. If an odd number of negated classes containing just a single character |
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interposed, within parentheses, between a forward reference to a named |
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subpattern and the definition of the subpattern, compilation crashed with |
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an internal error, complaining that it could not find the referenced |
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subpattern. An example of a crashing pattern is /(?&A)(([^m])(?<A>))/. |
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[The bug was that it was starting one character too far in when skipping |
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over the character class, thus treating the ] as data rather than |
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terminating the class. This meant it could skip too much.] |
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20. Added PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART in order to be able to correctly implement the |
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/g option in pcretest when the pattern contains \K, which makes it possible |
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to have an empty string match not at the start, even when the pattern is |
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anchored. Updated pcretest and pcredemo to use this option. |
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21. If the maximum number of capturing subpatterns in a recursion was greater |
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than the maximum at the outer level, the higher number was returned, but |
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with unset values at the outer level. The correct (outer level) value is |
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now given. |
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|
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22. If (*ACCEPT) appeared inside capturing parentheses, previous releases of |
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PCRE did not set those parentheses (unlike Perl). I have now found a way to |
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make it do so. The string so far is captured, making this feature |
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compatible with Perl. |
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23. The tests have been re-organized, adding tests 11 and 12, to make it |
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possible to check the Perl 5.10 features against Perl 5.10. |
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24. Perl 5.10 allows subroutine calls in lookbehinds, as long as the subroutine |
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pattern matches a fixed length string. PCRE did not allow this; now it |
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does. Neither allows recursion. |
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25. I finally figured out how to implement a request to provide the minimum |
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length of subject string that was needed in order to match a given pattern. |
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(It was back references and recursion that I had previously got hung up |
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on.) This code has now been added to pcre_study(); it finds a lower bound |
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to the length of subject needed. It is not necessarily the greatest lower |
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bound, but using it to avoid searching strings that are too short does give |
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some useful speed-ups. The value is available to calling programs via |
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pcre_fullinfo(). |
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26. While implementing 25, I discovered to my embarrassment that pcretest had |
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not been passing the result of pcre_study() to pcre_dfa_exec(), so the |
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study optimizations had never been tested with that matching function. |
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Oops. What is worse, even when it was passed study data, there was a bug in |
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pcre_dfa_exec() that meant it never actually used it. Double oops. There |
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were also very few tests of studied patterns with pcre_dfa_exec(). |
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|
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27. If (?| is used to create subpatterns with duplicate numbers, they are now |
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allowed to have the same name, even if PCRE_DUPNAMES is not set. However, |
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on the other side of the coin, they are no longer allowed to have different |
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names, because these cannot be distinguished in PCRE, and this has caused |
409 |
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confusion. (This is a difference from Perl.) |
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|
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28. When duplicate subpattern names are present (necessarily with different |
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numbers, as required by 27 above), and a test is made by name in a |
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conditional pattern, either for a subpattern having been matched, or for |
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recursion in such a pattern, all the associated numbered subpatterns are |
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tested, and the overall condition is true if the condition is true for any |
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one of them. This is the way Perl works, and is also more like the way |
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testing by number works. |
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Version 7.9 11-Apr-09 |
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|
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1. When building with support for bzlib/zlib (pcregrep) and/or readline |
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(pcretest), all targets were linked against these libraries. This included |
425 |
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libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp, even though they do not use these |
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libraries. This caused unwanted dependencies to be created. This problem |
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has been fixed, and now only pcregrep is linked with bzlib/zlib and only |
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pcretest is linked with readline. |
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|
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2. The "typedef int BOOL" in pcre_internal.h that was included inside the |
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"#ifndef FALSE" condition by an earlier change (probably 7.8/18) has been |
432 |
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moved outside it again, because FALSE and TRUE are already defined in AIX, |
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but BOOL is not. |
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|
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3. The pcre_config() function was treating the PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT and |
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PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION values as ints, when they should be long ints. |
437 |
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|
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4. The pcregrep documentation said spaces were inserted as well as colons (or |
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hyphens) following file names and line numbers when outputting matching |
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lines. This is not true; no spaces are inserted. I have also clarified the |
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wording for the --colour (or --color) option. |
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|
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|
5. In pcregrep, when --colour was used with -o, the list of matching strings |
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was not coloured; this is different to GNU grep, so I have changed it to be |
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the same. |
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|
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6. When --colo(u)r was used in pcregrep, only the first matching substring in |
448 |
|
each matching line was coloured. Now it goes on to look for further matches |
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of any of the test patterns, which is the same behaviour as GNU grep. |
450 |
|
|
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7. A pattern that could match an empty string could cause pcregrep to loop; it |
452 |
|
doesn't make sense to accept an empty string match in pcregrep, so I have |
453 |
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locked it out (using PCRE's PCRE_NOTEMPTY option). By experiment, this |
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|
seems to be how GNU grep behaves. |
455 |
|
|
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8. The pattern (?(?=.*b)b|^) was incorrectly compiled as "match must be at |
457 |
|
start or after a newline", because the conditional assertion was not being |
458 |
|
correctly handled. The rule now is that both the assertion and what follows |
459 |
|
in the first alternative must satisfy the test. |
460 |
|
|
461 |
|
9. If auto-callout was enabled in a pattern with a conditional group whose |
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|
condition was an assertion, PCRE could crash during matching, both with |
463 |
|
pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec(). |
464 |
|
|
465 |
|
10. The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option was not working when pcre_dfa_exec() was |
466 |
|
used for matching. |
467 |
|
|
468 |
|
11. Unicode property support in character classes was not working for |
469 |
|
characters (bytes) greater than 127 when not in UTF-8 mode. |
470 |
|
|
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|
12. Added the -M command line option to pcretest. |
472 |
|
|
473 |
|
14. Added the non-standard REG_NOTEMPTY option to the POSIX interface. |
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|
|
475 |
|
15. Added the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE match-time option. |
476 |
|
|
477 |
|
16. Added comments and documentation about mis-use of no_arg in the C++ |
478 |
|
wrapper. |
479 |
|
|
480 |
|
17. Implemented support for UTF-8 encoding in EBCDIC environments, a patch |
481 |
|
from Martin Jerabek that uses macro names for all relevant character and |
482 |
|
string constants. |
483 |
|
|
484 |
|
18. Added to pcre_internal.h two configuration checks: (a) If both EBCDIC and |
485 |
|
SUPPORT_UTF8 are set, give an error; (b) If SUPPORT_UCP is set without |
486 |
|
SUPPORT_UTF8, define SUPPORT_UTF8. The "configure" script handles both of |
487 |
|
these, but not everybody uses configure. |
488 |
|
|
489 |
|
19. A conditional group that had only one branch was not being correctly |
490 |
|
recognized as an item that could match an empty string. This meant that an |
491 |
|
enclosing group might also not be so recognized, causing infinite looping |
492 |
|
(and probably a segfault) for patterns such as ^"((?(?=[a])[^"])|b)*"$ |
493 |
|
with the subject "ab", where knowledge that the repeated group can match |
494 |
|
nothing is needed in order to break the loop. |
495 |
|
|
496 |
|
20. If a pattern that was compiled with callouts was matched using pcre_dfa_ |
497 |
|
exec(), but without supplying a callout function, matching went wrong. |
498 |
|
|
499 |
|
21. If PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT occurred during a recursion, there was a memory |
500 |
|
leak if the size of the offset vector was greater than 30. When the vector |
501 |
|
is smaller, the saved offsets during recursion go onto a local stack |
502 |
|
vector, but for larger vectors malloc() is used. It was failing to free |
503 |
|
when the recursion yielded PCRE_ERROR_MATCH_LIMIT (or any other "abnormal" |
504 |
|
error, in fact). |
505 |
|
|
506 |
|
22. There was a missing #ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8 round one of the variables in the |
507 |
|
heapframe that is used only when UTF-8 support is enabled. This caused no |
508 |
|
problem, but was untidy. |
509 |
|
|
510 |
|
23. Steven Van Ingelgem's patch to CMakeLists.txt to change the name |
511 |
|
CMAKE_BINARY_DIR to PROJECT_BINARY_DIR so that it works when PCRE is |
512 |
|
included within another project. |
513 |
|
|
514 |
|
24. Steven Van Ingelgem's patches to add more options to the CMake support, |
515 |
|
slightly modified by me: |
516 |
|
|
517 |
|
(a) PCRE_BUILD_TESTS can be set OFF not to build the tests, including |
518 |
|
not building pcregrep. |
519 |
|
|
520 |
|
(b) PCRE_BUILD_PCREGREP can be see OFF not to build pcregrep, but only |
521 |
|
if PCRE_BUILD_TESTS is also set OFF, because the tests use pcregrep. |
522 |
|
|
523 |
|
25. Forward references, both numeric and by name, in patterns that made use of |
524 |
|
duplicate group numbers, could behave incorrectly or give incorrect errors, |
525 |
|
because when scanning forward to find the reference group, PCRE was not |
526 |
|
taking into account the duplicate group numbers. A pattern such as |
527 |
|
^X(?3)(a)(?|(b)|(q))(Y) is an example. |
528 |
|
|
529 |
|
26. Changed a few more instances of "const unsigned char *" to USPTR, making |
530 |
|
the feature of a custom pointer more persuasive (as requested by a user). |
531 |
|
|
532 |
|
27. Wrapped the definitions of fileno and isatty for Windows, which appear in |
533 |
|
pcretest.c, inside #ifndefs, because it seems they are sometimes already |
534 |
|
pre-defined. |
535 |
|
|
536 |
|
28. Added support for (*UTF8) at the start of a pattern. |
537 |
|
|
538 |
|
29. Arrange for flags added by the "release type" setting in CMake to be shown |
539 |
|
in the configuration summary. |
540 |
|
|
541 |
|
|
542 |
|
Version 7.8 05-Sep-08 |
543 |
--------------------- |
--------------------- |
544 |
|
|
545 |
1. Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad |
1. Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad |
569 |
|
|
570 |
7. Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two |
7. Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two |
571 |
pointers, in case they are 64-bit values. |
pointers, in case they are 64-bit values. |
572 |
|
|
573 |
8. Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to |
8. Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to |
574 |
test 2 if it fails. |
test 2 if it fails. |
575 |
|
|
576 |
9. Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions, |
9. Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions, |
577 |
and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to |
and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to |
578 |
allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary. |
allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary. |
579 |
|
|
580 |
10. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from |
10. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from |
581 |
the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file. |
the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file. |
582 |
|
|
583 |
|
11. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives |
584 |
|
could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in |
585 |
|
some environments: |
586 |
|
|
587 |
|
printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest |
588 |
|
|
589 |
|
This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371. |
590 |
|
|
591 |
|
12. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately |
592 |
|
after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and |
593 |
|
pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was |
594 |
|
no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified |
595 |
|
pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer. |
596 |
|
|
597 |
|
13. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_ |
598 |
|
exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode. |
599 |
|
|
600 |
|
14. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and |
601 |
|
the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its |
602 |
|
first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching. |
603 |
|
|
604 |
|
15. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example, |
605 |
|
/^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc". |
606 |
|
|
607 |
|
16. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h. |
608 |
|
|
609 |
|
17. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from |
610 |
|
pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts. |
611 |
|
|
612 |
|
18. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings. |
613 |
|
|
614 |
|
19. Updated the Virtual Pascal + BCC files to compile the latest v7.7, as |
615 |
|
supplied by Stefan Weber. I made a further small update for 7.8 because |
616 |
|
there is a change of source arrangements: the pcre_searchfuncs.c module is |
617 |
|
replaced by pcre_ucd.c. |
618 |
|
|
619 |
|
|
620 |
Version 7.7 07-May-08 |
Version 7.7 07-May-08 |
621 |
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