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1. If the pattern /((Z)+|A)*/ was matched agained ZABCDEFG it matched Z instead |
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of ZA. This was just one example of several cases that could provoke this bug, |
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which was introduced by change 9 of version 2.00. The code for breaking |
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infinite loops after an iteration that matches an empty string was't working |
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correctly. |
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2. The pcretest program was not imitating Perl correctly for the pattern /a*/g |
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when matched against abbab (for example). After matching an empty string, it |
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wasn't forcing anchoring when setting PCRE_NOTEMPTY for the next attempt; this |
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caused it to match further down the string than it should. |
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3. The code contained an inclusion of sys/types.h. It isn't clear why this |
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was there because it doesn't seem to be needed, and it causes trouble on some |
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systems, as it is not a Standard C header. It has been removed. |
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4. Made 4 silly changes to the source to avoid stupid compiler warnings that |
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were reported on the Macintosh. The changes were from |
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while ((c = *(++ptr)) != 0 && c != '\n'); |
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while ((c = *(++ptr)) != 0 && c != '\n') ; |
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Totally extraordinary, but if that's what it takes... |
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5. PCRE is being used in one environment where neither memmove() nor bcopy() is |
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available. Added HAVE_BCOPY and an autoconf test for it; if neither |
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HAVE_MEMMOVE nor HAVE_BCOPY is set, use a built-in emulation function which |
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assumes the way PCRE uses memmove() (always moving upwards). |
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6. PCRE is being used in one environment where strchr() is not available. There |
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was only one use in pcre.c, and writing it out to avoid strchr() probably gives |
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faster code anyway. |
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Version 3.1 09-Feb-00 |
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The only change in this release is the fixing of some bugs in Makefile.in for |
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the "install" target: |
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(1) It was failing to install pcreposix.h. |
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(2) It was overwriting the pcre.3 man page with the pcreposix.3 man page. |
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1. Add support for the /+ modifier to perltest (to output $` like it does in |
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pcretest). |
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2. Add support for the /g modifier to perltest. |
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3. Fix pcretest so that it behaves even more like Perl for /g when the pattern |
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matches null strings. |
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4. Fix perltest so that it doesn't do unwanted things when fed an empty |
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pattern. Perl treats empty patterns specially - it reuses the most recent |
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pattern, which is not what we want. Replace // by /(?#)/ in order to avoid this |
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effect. |
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5. The POSIX interface was broken in that it was just handing over the POSIX |
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captured string vector to pcre_exec(), but (since release 2.00) PCRE has |
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required a bigger vector, with some working space on the end. This means that |
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the POSIX wrapper now has to get and free some memory, and copy the results. |
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6. Added some simple autoconf support, placing the test data and the |
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documentation in separate directories, re-organizing some of the |
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information files, and making it build pcre-config (a GNU standard). Also added |
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libtool support for building PCRE as a shared library, which is now the |
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default. |
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7. Got rid of the leading zero in the definition of PCRE_MINOR because 08 and |
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09 are not valid octal constants. Single digits will be used for minor values |
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less than 10. |
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8. Defined REG_EXTENDED and REG_NOSUB as zero in the POSIX header, so that |
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existing programs that set these in the POSIX interface can use PCRE without |
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modification. |
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9. Added a new function, pcre_fullinfo() with an extensible interface. It can |
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return all that pcre_info() returns, plus additional data. The pcre_info() |
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function is retained for compatibility, but is considered to be obsolete. |
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10. Added experimental recursion feature (?R) to handle one common case that |
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Perl 5.6 will be able to do with (?p{...}). |
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adopting. |
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1. When startoffset was not zero and the pattern began with ".*", PCRE was not |
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trying to match at the startoffset position, but instead was moving forward to |
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the next newline as if a previous match had failed. |
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2. pcretest was not making use of PCRE_NOTEMPTY when repeating for /g and /G, |
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and could get into a loop if a null string was matched other than at the start |
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of the subject. |
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3. Added definitions of PCRE_MAJOR and PCRE_MINOR to pcre.h so the version can |
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be distinguished at compile time, and for completeness also added PCRE_DATE. |
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5. Added Paul Sokolovsky's minor changes to make it easy to compile a Win32 DLL |
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in GnuWin32 environments. |
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