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revision 370 by ph10, Sun Aug 24 16:53:47 2008 UTC revision 371 by ph10, Mon Aug 25 18:28:05 2008 UTC
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32  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
33      pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.      pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.
34    
35  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
36      test 2 if it fails.      test 2 if it fails.
37    
38  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,
39      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
40      allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.      allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.
41    
42  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
43      the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.      the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.
44    
45  11. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives  11. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives
46      could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in      could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in
47      some environments:      some environments:
48    
49        printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest        printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest
50    
51      This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371.      This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371.
52    
53  12. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately  12. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately
54      after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and      after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and
55      pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was      pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was
56      no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified      no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified
57      pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer.      pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer.
58    
59  13. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_  13. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_
60      exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode.      exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode.
61    
62  14. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and  14. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and
63      the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its      the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its
64      first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching.      first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching.
65    
66  15. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example,  15. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example,
67      /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc".      /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc".
68    
69  16. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h.  16. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h.
70    
71  17. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from  17. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from
72      pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts.      pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts.
73    
74  18. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings.  18. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings.
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77  Version 7.7 07-May-08  Version 7.7 07-May-08
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