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1  ChangeLog for PCRE  ChangeLog for PCRE
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3    
4  Version 8.20 23-Sep-2011  Version 8.21
5    ------------
6    
7    1.  Updating the JIT compiler.
8    
9    2.  JIT compiler now supports OP_NCREF, OP_RREF and OP_NRREF. New test cases
10        are added as well.
11    
12    3.  Fix cache-flush issue on PowerPC (It is still an experimental JIT port).
13        PCRE_EXTRA_TABLES is not suported by JIT, and should be checked before
14        calling _pcre_jit_exec. Some extra comments are added.
15    
16    4.  Mark settings inside atomic groups that do not contain any capturing
17        parentheses, for example, (?>a(*:m)), were not being passed out. This bug
18        was introduced by change 18 for 8.20.
19    
20    5.  Supporting of \x, \U and \u in JavaScript compatibility mode based on the
21        ECMA-262 standard.
22    
23    6.  Lookbehinds such as (?<=a{2}b) that contained a fixed repetition were
24        erroneously being rejected as "not fixed length" if PCRE_CASELESS was set.
25        This bug was probably introduced by change 9 of 8.13.
26    
27    7.  While fixing 6 above, I noticed that a number of other items were being
28        incorrectly rejected as "not fixed length". This arose partly because newer
29        opcodes had not been added to the fixed-length checking code. I have (a)
30        corrected the bug and added tests for these items, and (b) arranged for an
31        error to occur if an unknown opcode is encountered while checking for fixed
32        length instead of just assuming "not fixed length". The items that were
33        rejected were: (*ACCEPT), (*COMMIT), (*FAIL), (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP),
34        (*THEN), \h, \H, \v, \V, and single character negative classes with fixed
35        repetitions, e.g. [^a]{3}, with and without PCRE_CASELESS.
36    
37    8.  A possessively repeated conditional subpattern such as (?(?=c)c|d)++ was
38        being incorrectly compiled and would have given unpredicatble results.
39    
40    9.  A possessively repeated subpattern with minimum repeat count greater than
41        one behaved incorrectly. For example, (A){2,}+ behaved as if it was
42        (A)(A)++ which meant that, after a subsequent mismatch, backtracking into
43        the first (A) could occur when it should not.
44    
45    10. Add a cast and remove a redundant test from the code.
46    
47    11. JIT should use pcre_malloc/pcre_free for allocation.
48    
49    12. Updated pcre-config so that it no longer shows -L/usr/lib, which seems
50        best practice nowadays, and helps with cross-compiling. (If the exec_prefix
51        is anything other than /usr, -L is still shown).
52    
53    13. In non-UTF-8 mode, \C is now supported in lookbehinds and DFA matching.
54    
55    14. Perl does not support \N without a following name in a [] class; PCRE now
56        also gives an error.
57    
58    15. If a forward reference was repeated with an upper limit of around 2000,
59        it caused the error "internal error: overran compiling workspace". The
60        maximum number of forward references (including repeats) was limited by the
61        internal workspace, and dependent on the LINK_SIZE. The code has been
62        rewritten so that the workspace expands (via pcre_malloc) if necessary, and
63        the default depends on LINK_SIZE. There is a new upper limit (for safety)
64        of around 200,000 forward references. While doing this, I also speeded up
65        the filling in of repeated forward references.
66    
67    16. A repeated forward reference in a pattern such as (a)(?2){2}(.) was
68        incorrectly expecting the subject to contain another "a" after the start.
69    
70    17. When (*SKIP:name) is activated without a corresponding (*MARK:name) earlier
71        in the match, the SKIP should be ignored. This was not happening; instead
72        the SKIP was being treated as NOMATCH. For patterns such as
73        /A(*MARK:A)A+(*SKIP:B)Z|AAC/ this meant that the AAC branch was never
74        tested.
75    
76    18. The behaviour of (*MARK), (*PRUNE), and (*THEN) has been reworked and is
77        now much more compatible with Perl, in particular in cases where the result
78        is a non-match for a non-anchored pattern. For example, if
79        /b(*:m)f|a(*:n)w/ is matched against "abc", the non-match returns the name
80        "m", where previously it did not return a name. A side effect of this
81        change is that for partial matches, the last encountered mark name is
82        returned, as for non matches. A number of tests that were previously not
83        Perl-compatible have been moved into the Perl-compatible test files. The
84        refactoring has had the pleasing side effect of removing one argument from
85        the match() function, thus reducing its stack requirements.
86    
87    19. If the /S+ option was used in pcretest to study a pattern using JIT,
88        subsequent uses of /S (without +) incorrectly behaved like /S+.
89    
90    21. Retrieve executable code size support for the JIT compiler and fixing
91        some warnings.
92    
93    22. A caseless match of a UTF-8 character whose other case uses fewer bytes did
94        not work when the shorter character appeared right at the end of the
95        subject string.
96    
97    23. Added some (int) casts to non-JIT modules to reduce warnings on 64-bit
98        systems.
99    
100    24. Added PCRE_INFO_JITSIZE to pass on the value from (21) above, and also
101        output it when the /M option is used in pcretest.
102    
103    
104    Version 8.20 21-Oct-2011
105  ------------------------  ------------------------
106    
107  1.  Change 37 of 8.13 broke patterns like [:a]...[b:] because it thought it had  1.  Change 37 of 8.13 broke patterns like [:a]...[b:] because it thought it had
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152      so that no minimum is registered for a pattern that contains *ACCEPT.      so that no minimum is registered for a pattern that contains *ACCEPT.
153    
154  8.  If (*THEN) was present in the first (true) branch of a conditional group,  8.  If (*THEN) was present in the first (true) branch of a conditional group,
155      it was not handled as intended.      it was not handled as intended. [But see 16 below.]
156    
157  9.  Replaced RunTest.bat with the much improved version provided by Sheri  9.  Replaced RunTest.bat and CMakeLists.txt with improved versions provided by
158      Pierce.      Sheri Pierce.
159    
160  10. A pathological pattern such as /(*ACCEPT)a/ was miscompiled, thinking that  10. A pathological pattern such as /(*ACCEPT)a/ was miscompiled, thinking that
161      the first byte in a match must be "a".      the first byte in a match must be "a".
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165      pattern contains any instances of (*THEN). If it does not, the old      pattern contains any instances of (*THEN). If it does not, the old
166      optimizations are restored. It would be nice to do this on a per-group      optimizations are restored. It would be nice to do this on a per-group
167      basis, but at the moment that is not feasible.      basis, but at the moment that is not feasible.
168    
169  12. In some environments, the output of pcretest -C is CRLF terminated. This  12. In some environments, the output of pcretest -C is CRLF terminated. This
170      broke RunTest's code that checks for the link size. A single white space      broke RunTest's code that checks for the link size. A single white space
171      after the value is now allowed for.      character after the value is now allowed for.
172    
173  13. RunTest now checks for the "fr" locale as well as for "fr_FR" and "french".  13. RunTest now checks for the "fr" locale as well as for "fr_FR" and "french".
174      For "fr", it uses the Windows-specific input and output files.      For "fr", it uses the Windows-specific input and output files.
175    
176    14. If (*THEN) appeared in a group that was called recursively or as a
177        subroutine, it did not work as intended. [But see next item.]
178    
179    15. Consider the pattern /A (B(*THEN)C) | D/ where A, B, C, and D are complex
180        pattern fragments (but not containing any | characters). If A and B are
181        matched, but there is a failure in C so that it backtracks to (*THEN), PCRE
182        was behaving differently to Perl. PCRE backtracked into A, but Perl goes to
183        D. In other words, Perl considers parentheses that do not contain any |
184        characters to be part of a surrounding alternative, whereas PCRE was
185        treading (B(*THEN)C) the same as (B(*THEN)C|(*FAIL)) -- which Perl handles
186        differently. PCRE now behaves in the same way as Perl, except in the case
187        of subroutine/recursion calls such as (?1) which have in any case always
188        been different (but PCRE had them first :-).
189    
190    16. Related to 15 above: Perl does not treat the | in a conditional group as
191        creating alternatives. Such a group is treated in the same way as an
192        ordinary group without any | characters when processing (*THEN). PCRE has
193        been changed to match Perl's behaviour.
194    
195    17. If a user had set PCREGREP_COLO(U)R to something other than 1:31, the
196        RunGrepTest script failed.
197    
198    18. Change 22 for version 13 caused atomic groups to use more stack. This is
199        inevitable for groups that contain captures, but it can lead to a lot of
200        stack use in large patterns. The old behaviour has been restored for atomic
201        groups that do not contain any capturing parentheses.
202    
203    19. If the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option was set for pcre_compile(), it did not
204        suppress the check for a minimum subject length at run time. (If it was
205        given to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() it did work.)
206    
207    20. Fixed an ASCII-dependent infelicity in pcretest that would have made it
208        fail to work when decoding hex characters in data strings in EBCDIC
209        environments.
210    
211    21. It appears that in at least one Mac OS environment, the isxdigit() function
212        is implemented as a macro that evaluates to its argument more than once,
213        contravening the C 90 Standard (I haven't checked a later standard). There
214        was an instance in pcretest which caused it to go wrong when processing
215        \x{...} escapes in subject strings. The has been rewritten to avoid using
216        things like p++ in the argument of isxdigit().
217    
218    
219  Version 8.13 16-Aug-2011  Version 8.13 16-Aug-2011
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