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  ChangeLog for PCRE
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- Version 7.1 05-Mar-07
+ Version 7.7 28-Apr-08
  ---------------------
-. Applied Bob Rossi and Daniel G's patches to convert the build system to one
+.  Applied Craig's patch to sort out a long long problem: "If we can't convert
-     that is more "standard", making use of automake and other autotools. There
+     a string to a long long, pretend we don't even have a long long." This is
+     done by checking for the strtoq, strtoll, and _strtoi64 functions.
+.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to restore ABI compatibility with
+     pre-7.6 versions, which defined a global no_arg variable instead of putting
+     it in the RE class. (See also #8 below.)
+.  Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno
+     Lopes.
+.  Fixed two related pcregrep bugs involving -r with --include or --exclude:
+     (1) The include/exclude patterns were being applied to the whole pathnames
+         of files, instead of just to the final components.
+     (2) If there was more than one level of directory, the subdirectories were
+         skipped unless they satisfied the include/exclude conditions. This is
+         inconsistent with GNU grep (and could even be seen as contrary to the
+         pcregrep specification - which I improved to make it absolutely clear).
+         The action now is always to scan all levels of directory, and just
+         apply the include/exclude patterns to regular files.
+.  Added the --include_dir and --exclude_dir patterns to pcregrep, and used
+     --exclude_dir in the tests to avoid scanning .svn directories.
+.  Applied Craig's patch to the QuoteMeta function so that it escapes the
+     NUL character as backslash + 0 rather than backslash + NUL, because PCRE
+     doesn't support NULs in patterns.
+.  Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in
+     pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c.
+.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to fix a problem in OS X that was
+     caused by fix #2  above. (Subsequently also a second patch to fix the
+     first patch. And a third patch - this was a messy problem.)
+.  Applied Craig's patch to remove the use of push_back().
+. Applied Alan Lehotsky's patch to add REG_STARTEND support to the POSIX
+     matching function regexec().
+. Added support for the Oniguruma syntax \g<name>, \g<n>, \g'name', \g'n',
+     which, however, unlike Perl's \g{...}, are subroutine calls, not back
+     references. PCRE supports relative numbers with this syntax (I don't think
+     Oniguruma does).
+. Previously, a group with a zero repeat such as (...){0} was completely
+     omitted from the compiled regex. However, this means that if the group
+     was called as a subroutine from elsewhere in the pattern, things went wrong
+     (an internal error was given). Such groups are now left in the compiled
+     pattern, with a new opcode that causes them to be skipped at execution
+     time.
+. Added the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option. This makes the following changes
+     to the way PCRE behaves:
+     (a) A lone ] character is dis-allowed (Perl treats it as data).
+     (b) A back reference to an unmatched subpattern matches an empty string
+         (Perl fails the current match path).
+     (c) A data ] in a character class must be notated as \] because if the
+         first data character in a class is ], it defines an empty class. (In
+         Perl it is not possible to have an empty class.) The empty class []
+         never matches; it forces failure and is equivalent to (*FAIL) or (?!).
+         The negative empty class [^] matches any one character, independently
+         of the DOTALL setting.
+. A pattern such as /(?2)[]a()b](abc)/ which had a forward reference to a
+     non-existent subpattern following a character class starting with ']' and
+     containing () gave an internal compiling error instead of "reference to
+     non-existent subpattern". Fortunately, when the pattern did exist, the
+     compiled code was correct. (When scanning forwards to check for the
+     existencd of the subpattern, it was treating the data ']' as terminating
+     the class, so got the count wrong. When actually compiling, the reference
+     was subsequently set up correctly.)
+. The "always fail" assertion (?!) is optimzed to (*FAIL) by pcre_compile;
+     it was being rejected as not supported by pcre_dfa_exec(), even though
+     other assertions are supported. I have made pcre_dfa_exec() support
+     (*FAIL).
+. The implementation of 13c above involved the invention of a new opcode,
+     OP_ALLANY, which is like OP_ANY but doesn't check the /s flag. Since /s
+     cannot be changed at match time, I realized I could make a small
+     improvement to matching performance by compiling OP_ALLANY instead of
+     OP_ANY for "." when DOTALL was set, and then removing the runtime tests
+     on the OP_ANY path.
+. Compiling pcretest on Windows with readline support failed without the
+     following two fixes: (1) Make the unistd.h include conditional on
+     HAVE_UNISTD_H; (2) #define isatty and fileno as _isatty and _fileno.
+. Changed CMakeLists.txt and cmake/FindReadline.cmake to arrange for the
+     ncurses library to be included for pcretest when ReadLine support is
+     requested, but also to allow for it to be overridden. This patch came from
+     Daniel Bergstr�m.
+ Version 7.6 28-Jan-08
+ ---------------------
+.  A character class containing a very large number of characters with
+     codepoints greater than 255 (in UTF-8 mode, of course) caused a buffer
+     overflow.
+.  Patch to cut out the "long long" test in pcrecpp_unittest when
+     HAVE_LONG_LONG is not defined.
+.  Applied Christian Ehrlicher's patch to update the CMake build files to
+     bring them up to date and include new features. This patch includes:
+     - Fixed PH's badly added libz and libbz2 support.
+     - Fixed a problem with static linking.
+     - Added pcredemo. [But later removed - see 7 below.]
+     - Fixed dftables problem and added an option.
+     - Added a number of HAVE_XXX tests, including HAVE_WINDOWS_H and
+         HAVE_LONG_LONG.
+     - Added readline support for pcretest.
+     - Added an listing of the option settings after cmake has run.
+.  A user submitted a patch to Makefile that makes it easy to create
+     "pcre.dll" under mingw when using Configure/Make. I added stuff to
+     Makefile.am that cause it to include this special target, without
+     affecting anything else. Note that the same mingw target plus all
+     the other distribution libraries and programs are now supported
+     when configuring with CMake (see 6 below) instead of with
+     Configure/Make.
+.  Applied Craig's patch that moves no_arg into the RE class in the C++ code.
+     This is an attempt to solve the reported problem "pcrecpp::no_arg is not
+     exported in the Windows port". It has not yet been confirmed that the patch
+     solves the problem, but it does no harm.
+.  Applied Sheri's patch to CMakeLists.txt to add NON_STANDARD_LIB_PREFIX and
+     NON_STANDARD_LIB_SUFFIX for dll names built with mingw when configured
+     with CMake, and also correct the comment about stack recursion.
+.  Remove the automatic building of pcredemo from the ./configure system and
+     from CMakeLists.txt. The whole idea of pcredemo.c is that it is an example
+     of a program that users should build themselves after PCRE is installed, so
+     building it automatically is not really right. What is more, it gave
+     trouble in some build environments.
+.  Further tidies to CMakeLists.txt from Sheri and Christian.
+ Version 7.5 10-Jan-08
+ ---------------------
+.  Applied a patch from Craig: "This patch makes it possible to 'ignore'
+     values in parens when parsing an RE using the C++ wrapper."
+.  Negative specials like \S did not work in character classes in UTF-8 mode.
+     Characters greater than 255 were excluded from the class instead of being
+     included.
+.  The same bug as (2) above applied to negated POSIX classes such as
+     [:^space:].
+.  PCRECPP_STATIC was referenced in pcrecpp_internal.h, but nowhere was it
+     defined or documented. It seems to have been a typo for PCRE_STATIC, so
+     I have changed it.
+.  The construct (?&) was not diagnosed as a syntax error (it referenced the
+     first named subpattern) and a construct such as (?&a) would reference the
+     first named subpattern whose name started with "a" (in other words, the
+     length check was missing). Both these problems are fixed. "Subpattern name
+     expected" is now given for (?&) (a zero-length name), and this patch also
+     makes it give the same error for \k'' (previously it complained that that
+     was a reference to a non-existent subpattern).
+.  The erroneous patterns (?+-a) and (?-+a) give different error messages;
+     this is right because (?- can be followed by option settings as well as by
+     digits. I have, however, made the messages clearer.
+.  Patterns such as (?(1)a|b) (a pattern that contains fewer subpatterns
+     than the number used in the conditional) now cause a compile-time error.
+     This is actually not compatible with Perl, which accepts such patterns, but
+     treats the conditional as always being FALSE (as PCRE used to), but it
+     seems to me that giving a diagnostic is better.
+.  Change "alphameric" to the more common word "alphanumeric" in comments
+     and messages.
+.  Fix two occurrences of "backslash" in comments that should have been
+     "backspace".
+. Remove two redundant lines of code that can never be obeyed (their function
+     was moved elsewhere).
+. The program that makes PCRE's Unicode character property table had a bug
+     which caused it to generate incorrect table entries for sequences of
+     characters that have the same character type, but are in different scripts.
+     It amalgamated them into a single range, with the script of the first of
+     them. In other words, some characters were in the wrong script. There were
+     thirteen such cases, affecting characters in the following ranges:
+       U+002b0 - U+002c1
+       U+0060c - U+0060d
+       U+0061e - U+00612
+       U+0064b - U+0065e
+       U+0074d - U+0076d
+       U+01800 - U+01805
+       U+01d00 - U+01d77
+       U+01d9b - U+01dbf
+       U+0200b - U+0200f
+       U+030fc - U+030fe
+       U+03260 - U+0327f
+       U+0fb46 - U+0fbb1
+       U+10450 - U+1049d
+. The -o option (show only the matching part of a line) for pcregrep was not
+     compatible with GNU grep in that, if there was more than one match in a
+     line, it showed only the first of them. It now behaves in the same way as
+     GNU grep.
+. If the -o and -v options were combined for pcregrep, it printed a blank
+     line for every non-matching line. GNU grep prints nothing, and pcregrep now
+     does the same. The return code can be used to tell if there were any
+     non-matching lines.
+. Added --file-offsets and --line-offsets to pcregrep.
+. The pattern (?=something)(?R) was not being diagnosed as a potentially
+     infinitely looping recursion. The bug was that positive lookaheads were not
+     being skipped when checking for a possible empty match (negative lookaheads
+     and both kinds of lookbehind were skipped).
+. Fixed two typos in the Windows-only code in pcregrep.c, and moved the
+     inclusion of <windows.h> to before rather than after the definition of
+     INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES (patch from David Byron).
+. Specifying a possessive quantifier with a specific limit for a Unicode
+     character property caused pcre_compile() to compile bad code, which led at
+     runtime to PCRE_ERROR_INTERNAL (-14). Examples of patterns that caused this
+     are: /\p{Zl}{2,3}+/8 and /\p{Cc}{2}+/8. It was the possessive "+" that
+     caused the error; without that there was no problem.
+. Added --enable-pcregrep-libz and --enable-pcregrep-libbz2.
+. Added --enable-pcretest-libreadline.
+. In pcrecpp.cc, the variable 'count' was incremented twice in
+     RE::GlobalReplace(). As a result, the number of replacements returned was
+     double what it should be. I removed one of the increments, but Craig sent a
+     later patch that removed the other one (the right fix) and added unit tests
+     that check the return values (which was not done before).
+. Several CMake things:
+     (1) Arranged that, when cmake is used on Unix, the libraries end up with
+         the names libpcre and libpcreposix, not just pcre and pcreposix.
+     (2) The above change means that pcretest and pcregrep are now correctly
+         linked with the newly-built libraries, not previously installed ones.
+     (3) Added PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBREADLINE, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBZ, PCRE_SUPPORT_LIBBZ2.
+. In UTF-8 mode, with newline set to "any", a pattern such as .*a.*=.b.*
+     crashed when matching a string such as a\x{2029}b (note that \x{2029} is a
+     UTF-8 newline character). The key issue is that the pattern starts .*;
+     this means that the match must be either at the beginning, or after a
+     newline. The bug was in the code for advancing after a failed match and
+     checking that the new position followed a newline. It was not taking
+     account of UTF-8 characters correctly.
+. PCRE was behaving differently from Perl in the way it recognized POSIX
+     character classes. PCRE was not treating the sequence [:...:] as a
+     character class unless the ... were all letters. Perl, however, seems to
+     allow any characters between [: and :], though of course it rejects as
+     unknown any "names" that contain non-letters, because all the known class
+     names consist only of letters. Thus, Perl gives an error for [[:1234:]],
+     for example, whereas PCRE did not - it did not recognize a POSIX character
+     class. This seemed a bit dangerous, so the code has been changed to be
+     closer to Perl. The behaviour is not identical to Perl, because PCRE will
+     diagnose an unknown class for, for example, [[:l\ower:]] where Perl will
+     treat it as [[:lower:]]. However, PCRE does now give "unknown" errors where
+     Perl does, and where it didn't before.
+. Rewrite so as to remove the single use of %n from pcregrep because in some
+     Windows environments %n is disabled by default.
+ Version 7.4 21-Sep-07
+ ---------------------
+.  Change 7.3/28 was implemented for classes by looking at the bitmap. This
+     means that a class such as [\s] counted as "explicit reference to CR or
+     LF". That isn't really right - the whole point of the change was to try to
+     help when there was an actual mention of one of the two characters. So now
+     the change happens only if \r or \n (or a literal CR or LF) character is
+     encountered.
+.  The 32-bit options word was also used for 6 internal flags, but the numbers
+     of both had grown to the point where there were only 3 bits left.
+     Fortunately, there was spare space in the data structure, and so I have
+     moved the internal flags into a new 16-bit field to free up more option
+     bits.
+.  The appearance of (?J) at the start of a pattern set the DUPNAMES option,
+     but did not set the internal JCHANGED flag - either of these is enough to
+     control the way the "get" function works - but the PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED
+     facility is supposed to tell if (?J) was ever used, so now (?J) at the
+     start sets both bits.
+.  Added options (at build time, compile time, exec time) to change \R from
+     matching any Unicode line ending sequence to just matching CR, LF, or CRLF.
+.  doc/pcresyntax.html was missing from the distribution.
+.  Put back the definition of PCRE_ERROR_NULLWSLIMIT, for backward
+     compatibility, even though it is no longer used.
+.  Added macro for snprintf to pcrecpp_unittest.cc and also for strtoll and
+     strtoull to pcrecpp.cc to select the available functions in WIN32 when the
+     windows.h file is present (where different names are used). [This was
+     reversed later after testing - see 16 below.]
+.  Changed all #include <config.h> to #include "config.h". There were also
+     some further <pcre.h> cases that I changed to "pcre.h".
+.  When pcregrep was used with the --colour option, it missed the line ending
+     sequence off the lines that it output.
+. It was pointed out to me that arrays of string pointers cause lots of
+     relocations when a shared library is dynamically loaded. A technique of
+     using a single long string with a table of offsets can drastically reduce
+     these. I have refactored PCRE in four places to do this. The result is
+     dramatic:
+       Originally:                          290
+       After changing UCP table:            187
+       After changing error message table:   43
+       After changing table of "verbs"       36
+       After changing table of Posix names   22
+     Thanks to the folks working on Gregex for glib for this insight.
+. --disable-stack-for-recursion caused compiling to fail unless -enable-
+     unicode-properties was also set.
+. Updated the tests so that they work when \R is defaulted to ANYCRLF.
+. Added checks for ANY and ANYCRLF to pcrecpp.cc where it previously
+     checked only for CRLF.
+. Added casts to pcretest.c to avoid compiler warnings.
+. Added Craig's patch to various pcrecpp modules to avoid compiler warnings.
+. Added Craig's patch to remove the WINDOWS_H tests, that were not working,
+     and instead check for _strtoi64 explicitly, and avoid the use of snprintf()
+     entirely. This removes changes made in 7 above.
+. The CMake files have been updated, and there is now more information about
+     building with CMake in the NON-UNIX-USE document.
+ Version 7.3 28-Aug-07
+ ---------------------
+. In the rejigging of the build system that eventually resulted in 7.1, the
+     line "#include <pcre.h>" was included in pcre_internal.h. The use of angle
+     brackets there is not right, since it causes compilers to look for an
+     installed pcre.h, not the version that is in the source that is being
+     compiled (which of course may be different). I have changed it back to:
+       #include "pcre.h"
+     I have a vague recollection that the change was concerned with compiling in
+     different directories, but in the new build system, that is taken care of
+     by the VPATH setting the Makefile.
+. The pattern .*$ when run in not-DOTALL UTF-8 mode with newline=any failed
+     when the subject happened to end in the byte 0x85 (e.g. if the last
+     character was \x{1ec5}). *Character* 0x85 is one of the "any" newline
+     characters but of course it shouldn't be taken as a newline when it is part
+     of another character. The bug was that, for an unlimited repeat of . in
+     not-DOTALL UTF-8 mode, PCRE was advancing by bytes rather than by
+     characters when looking for a newline.
+. A small performance improvement in the DOTALL UTF-8 mode .* case.
+. Debugging: adjusted the names of opcodes for different kinds of parentheses
+     in debug output.
+. Arrange to use "%I64d" instead of "%lld" and "%I64u" instead of "%llu" for
+     long printing in the pcrecpp unittest when running under MinGW.
+. ESC_K was left out of the EBCDIC table.
+. Change 7.0/38 introduced a new limit on the number of nested non-capturing
+     parentheses; I made it 1000, which seemed large enough. Unfortunately, the
+     limit also applies to "virtual nesting" when a pattern is recursive, and in
+     this case 1000 isn't so big. I have been able to remove this limit at the
+     expense of backing off one optimization in certain circumstances. Normally,
+     when pcre_exec() would call its internal match() function recursively and
+     immediately return the result unconditionally, it uses a "tail recursion"
+     feature to save stack. However, when a subpattern that can match an empty
+     string has an unlimited repetition quantifier, it no longer makes this
+     optimization. That gives it a stack frame in which to save the data for
+     checking that an empty string has been matched. Previously this was taken
+     from the 1000-entry workspace that had been reserved. So now there is no
+     explicit limit, but more stack is used.
+. Applied Daniel's patches to solve problems with the import/export magic
+     syntax that is required for Windows, and which was going wrong for the
+     pcreposix and pcrecpp parts of the library. These were overlooked when this
+     problem was solved for the main library.
+. There were some crude static tests to avoid integer overflow when computing
+     the size of patterns that contain repeated groups with explicit upper
+     limits. As the maximum quantifier is 65535, the maximum group length was
+     set at 30,000 so that the product of these two numbers did not overflow a
+-bit integer. However, it turns out that people want to use groups that
+     are longer than 30,000 bytes (though not repeat them that many times).
+     Change 7.0/17 (the refactoring of the way the pattern size is computed) has
+     made it possible to implement the integer overflow checks in a much more
+     dynamic way, which I have now done. The artificial limitation on group
+     length has been removed - we now have only the limit on the total length of
+     the compiled pattern, which depends on the LINK_SIZE setting.
+. Fixed a bug in the documentation for get/copy named substring when
+     duplicate names are permitted. If none of the named substrings are set, the
+     functions return PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING (7); the doc said they returned an
+     empty string.
+. Because Perl interprets \Q...\E at a high level, and ignores orphan \E
+     instances, patterns such as [\Q\E] or [\E] or even [^\E] cause an error,
+     because the ] is interpreted as the first data character and the
+     terminating ] is not found. PCRE has been made compatible with Perl in this
+     regard. Previously, it interpreted [\Q\E] as an empty class, and [\E] could
+     cause memory overwriting.
+. Like Perl, PCRE automatically breaks an unlimited repeat after an empty
+     string has been matched (to stop an infinite loop). It was not recognizing
+     a conditional subpattern that could match an empty string if that
+     subpattern was within another subpattern. For example, it looped when
+     trying to match  (((?(1)X|))*)  but it was OK with  ((?(1)X|)*)  where the
+     condition was not nested. This bug has been fixed.
+. A pattern like \X?\d or \P{L}?\d in non-UTF-8 mode could cause a backtrack
+     past the start of the subject in the presence of bytes with the top bit
+     set, for example "\x8aBCD".
+. Added Perl 5.10 experimental backtracking controls (*FAIL), (*F), (*PRUNE),
+     (*SKIP), (*THEN), (*COMMIT), and (*ACCEPT).
+. Optimized (?!) to (*FAIL).
+. Updated the test for a valid UTF-8 string to conform to the later RFC 3629.
+     This restricts code points to be within the range 0 to 0x10FFFF, excluding
+     the "low surrogate" sequence 0xD800 to 0xDFFF. Previously, PCRE allowed the
+     full range 0 to 0x7FFFFFFF, as defined by RFC 2279. Internally, it still
+     does: it's just the validity check that is more restrictive.
+. Inserted checks for integer overflows during escape sequence (backslash)
+     processing, and also fixed erroneous offset values for syntax errors during
+     backslash processing.
+. Fixed another case of looking too far back in non-UTF-8 mode (cf 12 above)
+     for patterns like [\PPP\x8a]{1,}\x80 with the subject "A\x80".
+. An unterminated class in a pattern like (?1)\c[ with a "forward reference"
+     caused an overrun.
+. A pattern like (?:[\PPa*]*){8,} which had an "extended class" (one with
+     something other than just ASCII characters) inside a group that had an
+     unlimited repeat caused a loop at compile time (while checking to see
+     whether the group could match an empty string).
+. Debugging a pattern containing \p or \P could cause a crash. For example,
+     [\P{Any}] did so. (Error in the code for printing property names.)
+. An orphan \E inside a character class could cause a crash.
+. A repeated capturing bracket such as (A)? could cause a wild memory
+     reference during compilation.
+. There are several functions in pcre_compile() that scan along a compiled
+     expression for various reasons (e.g. to see if it's fixed length for look
+     behind). There were bugs in these functions when a repeated \p or \P was
+     present in the pattern. These operators have additional parameters compared
+     with \d, etc, and these were not being taken into account when moving along
+     the compiled data. Specifically:
+     (a) A item such as \p{Yi}{3} in a lookbehind was not treated as fixed
+         length.
+     (b) An item such as \pL+ within a repeated group could cause crashes or
+         loops.
+     (c) A pattern such as \p{Yi}+(\P{Yi}+)(?1) could give an incorrect
+         "reference to non-existent subpattern" error.
+     (d) A pattern like (\P{Yi}{2}\277)? could loop at compile time.
+. A repeated \S or \W in UTF-8 mode could give wrong answers when multibyte
+     characters were involved (for example /\S{2}/8g with "A\x{a3}BC").
+. Using pcregrep in multiline, inverted mode (-Mv) caused it to loop.
+. Patterns such as [\P{Yi}A] which include \p or \P and just one other
+     character were causing crashes (broken optimization).
+. Patterns such as (\P{Yi}*\277)* (group with possible zero repeat containing
+     \p or \P) caused a compile-time loop.
+. More problems have arisen in unanchored patterns when CRLF is a valid line
+     break. For example, the unstudied pattern [\r\n]A does not match the string
+     "\r\nA" because change 7.0/46 below moves the current point on by two
+     characters after failing to match at the start. However, the pattern \nA
+     *does* match, because it doesn't start till \n, and if [\r\n]A is studied,
+     the same is true. There doesn't seem any very clean way out of this, but
+     what I have chosen to do makes the common cases work: PCRE now takes note
+     of whether there can be an explicit match for \r or \n anywhere in the
+     pattern, and if so, 7.0/46 no longer applies. As part of this change,
+     there's a new PCRE_INFO_HASCRORLF option for finding out whether a compiled
+     pattern has explicit CR or LF references.
+. Added (*CR) etc for changing newline setting at start of pattern.
+ Version 7.2 19-Jun-07
+ ---------------------
+. If the fr_FR locale cannot be found for test 3, try the "french" locale,
+     which is apparently normally available under Windows.
+. Re-jig the pcregrep tests with different newline settings in an attempt
+     to make them independent of the local environment's newline setting.
+. Add code to configure.ac to remove -g from the CFLAGS default settings.
+. Some of the "internals" tests were previously cut out when the link size
+     was not 2, because the output contained actual offsets. The recent new
+     "Z" feature of pcretest means that these can be cut out, making the tests
+     usable with all link sizes.
+. Implemented Stan Switzer's goto replacement for longjmp() when not using
+     stack recursion. This gives a massive performance boost under BSD, but just
+     a small improvement under Linux. However, it saves one field in the frame
+     in all cases.
+. Added more features from the forthcoming Perl 5.10:
+     (a) (?-n) (where n is a string of digits) is a relative subroutine or
+         recursion call. It refers to the nth most recently opened parentheses.
+     (b) (?+n) is also a relative subroutine call; it refers to the nth next
+         to be opened parentheses.
+     (c) Conditions that refer to capturing parentheses can be specified
+         relatively, for example, (?(-2)... or (?(+3)...
+     (d) \K resets the start of the current match so that everything before
+         is not part of it.
+     (e) \k{name} is synonymous with \k<name> and \k'name' (.NET compatible).
+     (f) \g{name} is another synonym - part of Perl 5.10's unification of
+         reference syntax.
+     (g) (?| introduces a group in which the numbering of parentheses in each
+         alternative starts with the same number.
+     (h) \h, \H, \v, and \V match horizontal and vertical whitespace.
+. Added two new calls to pcre_fullinfo(): PCRE_INFO_OKPARTIAL and
+     PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED.
+. A pattern such as  (.*(.)?)*  caused pcre_exec() to fail by either not
+     terminating or by crashing. Diagnosed by Viktor Griph; it was in the code
+     for detecting groups that can match an empty string.
+. A pattern with a very large number of alternatives (more than several
+     hundred) was running out of internal workspace during the pre-compile
+     phase, where pcre_compile() figures out how much memory will be needed. A
+     bit of new cunning has reduced the workspace needed for groups with
+     alternatives. The 1000-alternative test pattern now uses 12 bytes of
+     workspace instead of running out of the 4096 that are available.
+. Inserted some missing (unsigned int) casts to get rid of compiler warnings.
+. Applied patch from Google to remove an optimization that didn't quite work.
+     The report of the bug said:
+       pcrecpp::RE("a*").FullMatch("aaa") matches, while
+       pcrecpp::RE("a*?").FullMatch("aaa") does not, and
+       pcrecpp::RE("a*?\\z").FullMatch("aaa") does again.
+. If \p or \P was used in non-UTF-8 mode on a character greater than 127
+     it matched the wrong number of bytes.
+ Version 7.1 24-Apr-07
+ ---------------------
+. Applied Bob Rossi and Daniel G's patches to convert the build system to one
+     that is more "standard", making use of automake and other Autotools. There
      is some re-arrangement of the files and adjustment of comments consequent
      on this.
 . Part of the patch fixed a problem with the pcregrep tests. The test of -r
      for recursive directory scanning broke on some systems because the files
      are not scanned in any specific order and on different systems the order
      was different. A call to "sort" has been inserted into RunGrepTest for the
      approprate test as a short-term fix. In the longer term there may be an
      alternative.
 . I had an email from Eric Raymond about problems translating some of PCRE's
      man pages to HTML (despite the fact that I distribute HTML pages, some
      people do their own conversions for various reasons). The problems
      concerned the use of low-level troff macros .br and .in. I have therefore
      removed all such uses from the man pages (some were redundant, some could
-     be replaced by .nf/.fi pairs). The maintain/132html script that I use to
+     be replaced by .nf/.fi pairs). The 132html script that I use to generate
-     generate HTML has been updated to handle .nf/.fi and to complain if it
+     HTML has been updated to handle .nf/.fi and to complain if it encounters
-     encounters .br or .in.
+     .br or .in.
 . Updated comments in configure.ac that get placed in config.h.in and also
-     arranged for config.h to be included in the distribution, for the benefit
+     arranged for config.h to be included in the distribution, with the name
-     of those who have to compile without Autotools (compare pcre.h).
+     config.h.generic, for the benefit of those who have to compile without
+     Autotools (compare pcre.h, which is now distributed as pcre.h.generic).
-. Updated the support (such as it is) for Virtual Pascal, thanks to Stefan
-     Weber: (1) pcre_internal.h was missing some function renames; (2) updated
+. Updated the support (such as it is) for Virtual Pascal, thanks to Stefan
-     makevp.bat for the current PCRE, using the additional files !compile.txt,
+     Weber: (1) pcre_internal.h was missing some function renames; (2) updated
-     !linklib.txt, and pcregexp.pas.
+     makevp.bat for the current PCRE, using the additional files
+     makevp_c.txt, makevp_l.txt, and pcregexp.pas.
-. A Windows user reported a minor discrepancy with test 2, which turned out
-     to be caused by a trailing space on an input line that had got lost in his
+. A Windows user reported a minor discrepancy with test 2, which turned out
+     to be caused by a trailing space on an input line that had got lost in his
      copy. The trailing space was an accident, so I've just removed it.
 . Add -Wl,-R... flags in pcre-config.in for *BSD* systems, as I'm told
      that is needed.
 . Mark ucp_table (in ucptable.h) and ucp_gentype (in pcre_ucp_searchfuncs.c)
      as "const" (a) because they are and (b) because it helps the PHP
      maintainers who have recently made a script to detect big data structures
      in the php code that should be moved to the .rodata section. I remembered
      to update Builducptable as well, so it won't revert if ucptable.h is ever
      re-created.
 . Added some extra #ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8 conditionals into pcretest.c,
      pcre_printint.src, pcre_compile.c, pcre_study.c, and pcre_tables.c, in
      order to be able to cut out the UTF-8 tables in the latter when UTF-8
      support is not required. This saves 1.5-2K of code, which is important in
      some applications.
-. The emulated memmove() function in pcre_internal.h (provided for those
+     Later: more #ifdefs are needed in pcre_ord2utf8.c and pcre_valid_utf8.c
-     environments that have neither memmove() nor bcopy()) was defining its
+     so as not to refer to the tables, even though these functions will never be
-     arguments as char * instead of void *.
+     called when UTF-8 support is disabled. Otherwise there are problems with a
+     shared library.
+. Fixed two bugs in the emulated memmove() function in pcre_internal.h:
+     (a) It was defining its arguments as char * instead of void *.
+     (b) It was assuming that all moves were upwards in memory; this was true
+         a long time ago when I wrote it, but is no longer the case.
+     The emulated memove() is provided for those environments that have neither
+     memmove() nor bcopy(). I didn't think anyone used it these days, but that
+     is clearly not the case, as these two bugs were recently reported.
+. The script PrepareRelease is now distributed: it calls 132html, CleanTxt,
+     and Detrail to create the HTML documentation, the .txt form of the man
+     pages, and it removes trailing spaces from listed files. It also creates
+     pcre.h.generic and config.h.generic from pcre.h and config.h. In the latter
+     case, it wraps all the #defines with #ifndefs. This script should be run
+     before "make dist".
+. Fixed two fairly obscure bugs concerned with quantified caseless matching
+     with Unicode property support.
+     (a) For a maximizing quantifier, if the two different cases of the
+         character were of different lengths in their UTF-8 codings (there are
+         some cases like this - I found 11), and the matching function had to
+         back up over a mixture of the two cases, it incorrectly assumed they
+         were both the same length.
+     (b) When PCRE was configured to use the heap rather than the stack for
+         recursion during matching, it was not correctly preserving the data for
+         the other case of a UTF-8 character when checking ahead for a match
+         while processing a minimizing repeat. If the check also involved
+         matching a wide character, but failed, corruption could cause an
+         erroneous result when trying to check for a repeat of the original
+         character.
+. Some tidying changes to the testing mechanism:
+     (a) The RunTest script now detects the internal link size and whether there
+         is UTF-8 and UCP support by running ./pcretest -C instead of relying on
+         values substituted by "configure". (The RunGrepTest script already did
+         this for UTF-8.) The configure.ac script no longer substitutes the
+         relevant variables.
+     (b) The debugging options /B and /D in pcretest show the compiled bytecode
+         with length and offset values. This means that the output is different
+         for different internal link sizes. Test 2 is skipped for link sizes
+         other than 2 because of this, bypassing the problem. Unfortunately,
+         there was also a test in test 3 (the locale tests) that used /B and
+         failed for link sizes other than 2. Rather than cut the whole test out,
+         I have added a new /Z option to pcretest that replaces the length and
+         offset values with spaces. This is now used to make test 3 independent
+         of link size. (Test 2 will be tidied up later.)
+. If erroroffset was passed as NULL to pcre_compile, it provoked a
+     segmentation fault instead of returning the appropriate error message.
+. In multiline mode when the newline sequence was set to "any", the pattern
+     ^$ would give a match between the \r and \n of a subject such as "A\r\nB".
+     This doesn't seem right; it now treats the CRLF combination as the line
+     ending, and so does not match in that case. It's only a pattern such as ^$
+     that would hit this one: something like ^ABC$ would have failed after \r
+     and then tried again after \r\n.
+. Changed the comparison command for RunGrepTest from "diff -u" to "diff -ub"
+     in an attempt to make files that differ only in their line terminators
+     compare equal. This works on Linux.
+. Under certain error circumstances pcregrep might try to free random memory
+     as it exited. This is now fixed, thanks to valgrind.
+. In pcretest, if the pattern /(?m)^$/g<any> was matched against the string
+     "abc\r\n\r\n", it found an unwanted second match after the second \r. This
+     was because its rules for how to advance for /g after matching an empty
+     string at the end of a line did not allow for this case. They now check for
+     it specially.
+. pcretest is supposed to handle patterns and data of any length, by
+     extending its buffers when necessary. It was getting this wrong when the
+     buffer for a data line had to be extended.
+. Added PCRE_NEWLINE_ANYCRLF which is like ANY, but matches only CR, LF, or
+     CRLF as a newline sequence.
+. Code for handling Unicode properties in pcre_dfa_exec() wasn't being cut
+     out by #ifdef SUPPORT_UCP. This did no harm, as it could never be used, but
+     I have nevertheless tidied it up.
+. Added some casts to kill warnings from HP-UX ia64 compiler.
+. Added a man page for pcre-config.
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