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  ChangeLog for PCRE
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+ Version 8.21 05-Dec-2011
+ ------------------------
+.  Updating the JIT compiler.
+.  JIT compiler now supports OP_NCREF, OP_RREF and OP_NRREF. New test cases
+     are added as well.
+.  Fix cache-flush issue on PowerPC (It is still an experimental JIT port).
+     PCRE_EXTRA_TABLES is not suported by JIT, and should be checked before
+     calling _pcre_jit_exec. Some extra comments are added.
+.  (*MARK) settings inside atomic groups that do not contain any capturing
+     parentheses, for example, (?>a(*:m)), were not being passed out. This bug
+     was introduced by change 18 for 8.20.
+.  Supporting of \x, \U and \u in JavaScript compatibility mode based on the
+     ECMA-262 standard.
+.  Lookbehinds such as (?<=a{2}b) that contained a fixed repetition were
+     erroneously being rejected as "not fixed length" if PCRE_CASELESS was set.
+     This bug was probably introduced by change 9 of 8.13.
+.  While fixing 6 above, I noticed that a number of other items were being
+     incorrectly rejected as "not fixed length". This arose partly because newer
+     opcodes had not been added to the fixed-length checking code. I have (a)
+     corrected the bug and added tests for these items, and (b) arranged for an
+     error to occur if an unknown opcode is encountered while checking for fixed
+     length instead of just assuming "not fixed length". The items that were
+     rejected were: (*ACCEPT), (*COMMIT), (*FAIL), (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP),
+     (*THEN), \h, \H, \v, \V, and single character negative classes with fixed
+     repetitions, e.g. [^a]{3}, with and without PCRE_CASELESS.
+.  A possessively repeated conditional subpattern such as (?(?=c)c|d)++ was
+     being incorrectly compiled and would have given unpredicatble results.
+.  A possessively repeated subpattern with minimum repeat count greater than
+     one behaved incorrectly. For example, (A){2,}+ behaved as if it was
+     (A)(A)++ which meant that, after a subsequent mismatch, backtracking into
+     the first (A) could occur when it should not.
+. Add a cast and remove a redundant test from the code.
+. JIT should use pcre_malloc/pcre_free for allocation.
+. Updated pcre-config so that it no longer shows -L/usr/lib, which seems
+     best practice nowadays, and helps with cross-compiling. (If the exec_prefix
+     is anything other than /usr, -L is still shown).
+. In non-UTF-8 mode, \C is now supported in lookbehinds and DFA matching.
+. Perl does not support \N without a following name in a [] class; PCRE now
+     also gives an error.
+. If a forward reference was repeated with an upper limit of around 2000,
+     it caused the error "internal error: overran compiling workspace". The
+     maximum number of forward references (including repeats) was limited by the
+     internal workspace, and dependent on the LINK_SIZE. The code has been
+     rewritten so that the workspace expands (via pcre_malloc) if necessary, and
+     the default depends on LINK_SIZE. There is a new upper limit (for safety)
+     of around 200,000 forward references. While doing this, I also speeded up
+     the filling in of repeated forward references.
+. A repeated forward reference in a pattern such as (a)(?2){2}(.) was
+     incorrectly expecting the subject to contain another "a" after the start.
+. When (*SKIP:name) is activated without a corresponding (*MARK:name) earlier
+     in the match, the SKIP should be ignored. This was not happening; instead
+     the SKIP was being treated as NOMATCH. For patterns such as
+     /A(*MARK:A)A+(*SKIP:B)Z|AAC/ this meant that the AAC branch was never
+     tested.
+. The behaviour of (*MARK), (*PRUNE), and (*THEN) has been reworked and is
+     now much more compatible with Perl, in particular in cases where the result
+     is a non-match for a non-anchored pattern. For example, if
+     /b(*:m)f|a(*:n)w/ is matched against "abc", the non-match returns the name
+     "m", where previously it did not return a name. A side effect of this
+     change is that for partial matches, the last encountered mark name is
+     returned, as for non matches. A number of tests that were previously not
+     Perl-compatible have been moved into the Perl-compatible test files. The
+     refactoring has had the pleasing side effect of removing one argument from
+     the match() function, thus reducing its stack requirements.
+. If the /S+ option was used in pcretest to study a pattern using JIT,
+     subsequent uses of /S (without +) incorrectly behaved like /S+.
+. Retrieve executable code size support for the JIT compiler and fixing
+     some warnings.
+. A caseless match of a UTF-8 character whose other case uses fewer bytes did
+     not work when the shorter character appeared right at the end of the
+     subject string.
+. Added some (int) casts to non-JIT modules to reduce warnings on 64-bit
+     systems.
+. Added PCRE_INFO_JITSIZE to pass on the value from (21) above, and also
+     output it when the /M option is used in pcretest.
+. The CheckMan script was not being included in the distribution. Also, added
+     an explicit "perl" to run Perl scripts from the PrepareRelease script
+     because this is reportedly needed in Windows.
+ Version 8.20 21-Oct-2011
+ ------------------------
+.  Change 37 of 8.13 broke patterns like [:a]...[b:] because it thought it had
+     a POSIX class. After further experiments with Perl, which convinced me that
+     Perl has bugs and confusions, a closing square bracket is no longer allowed
+     in a POSIX name. This bug also affected patterns with classes that started
+     with full stops.
+.  If a pattern such as /(a)b|ac/ is matched against "ac", there is no
+     captured substring, but while checking the failing first alternative,
+     substring 1 is temporarily captured. If the output vector supplied to
+     pcre_exec() was not big enough for this capture, the yield of the function
+     was still zero ("insufficient space for captured substrings"). This cannot
+     be totally fixed without adding another stack variable, which seems a lot
+     of expense for a edge case. However, I have improved the situation in cases
+     such as /(a)(b)x|abc/ matched against "abc", where the return code
+     indicates that fewer than the maximum number of slots in the ovector have
+     been set.
+.  Related to (2) above: when there are more back references in a pattern than
+     slots in the output vector, pcre_exec() uses temporary memory during
+     matching, and copies in the captures as far as possible afterwards. It was
+     using the entire output vector, but this conflicts with the specification
+     that only 2/3 is used for passing back captured substrings. Now it uses
+     only the first 2/3, for compatibility. This is, of course, another edge
+     case.
+.  Zoltan Herczeg's just-in-time compiler support has been integrated into the
+     main code base, and can be used by building with --enable-jit. When this is
+     done, pcregrep automatically uses it unless --disable-pcregrep-jit or the
+     runtime --no-jit option is given.
+.  When the number of matches in a pcre_dfa_exec() run exactly filled the
+     ovector, the return from the function was zero, implying that there were
+     other matches that did not fit. The correct "exactly full" value is now
+     returned.
+.  If a subpattern that was called recursively or as a subroutine contained
+     (*PRUNE) or any other control that caused it to give a non-standard return,
+     invalid errors such as "Error -26 (nested recursion at the same subject
+     position)" or even infinite loops could occur.
+.  If a pattern such as /a(*SKIP)c|b(*ACCEPT)|/ was studied, it stopped
+     computing the minimum length on reaching *ACCEPT, and so ended up with the
+     wrong value of 1 rather than 0. Further investigation indicates that
+     computing a minimum subject length in the presence of *ACCEPT is difficult
+     (think back references, subroutine calls), and so I have changed the code
+     so that no minimum is registered for a pattern that contains *ACCEPT.
+.  If (*THEN) was present in the first (true) branch of a conditional group,
+     it was not handled as intended. [But see 16 below.]
+.  Replaced RunTest.bat and CMakeLists.txt with improved versions provided by
+     Sheri Pierce.
+. A pathological pattern such as /(*ACCEPT)a/ was miscompiled, thinking that
+     the first byte in a match must be "a".
+. Change 17 for 8.13 increased the recursion depth for patterns like
+     /a(?:.)*?a/ drastically. I've improved things by remembering whether a
+     pattern contains any instances of (*THEN). If it does not, the old
+     optimizations are restored. It would be nice to do this on a per-group
+     basis, but at the moment that is not feasible.
+. In some environments, the output of pcretest -C is CRLF terminated. This
+     broke RunTest's code that checks for the link size. A single white space
+     character after the value is now allowed for.
+. RunTest now checks for the "fr" locale as well as for "fr_FR" and "french".
+     For "fr", it uses the Windows-specific input and output files.
+. If (*THEN) appeared in a group that was called recursively or as a
+     subroutine, it did not work as intended. [But see next item.]
+. Consider the pattern /A (B(*THEN)C) | D/ where A, B, C, and D are complex
+     pattern fragments (but not containing any | characters). If A and B are
+     matched, but there is a failure in C so that it backtracks to (*THEN), PCRE
+     was behaving differently to Perl. PCRE backtracked into A, but Perl goes to
+     D. In other words, Perl considers parentheses that do not contain any |
+     characters to be part of a surrounding alternative, whereas PCRE was
+     treading (B(*THEN)C) the same as (B(*THEN)C|(*FAIL)) -- which Perl handles
+     differently. PCRE now behaves in the same way as Perl, except in the case
+     of subroutine/recursion calls such as (?1) which have in any case always
+     been different (but PCRE had them first :-).
+. Related to 15 above: Perl does not treat the | in a conditional group as
+     creating alternatives. Such a group is treated in the same way as an
+     ordinary group without any | characters when processing (*THEN). PCRE has
+     been changed to match Perl's behaviour.
+. If a user had set PCREGREP_COLO(U)R to something other than 1:31, the
+     RunGrepTest script failed.
+. Change 22 for version 13 caused atomic groups to use more stack. This is
+     inevitable for groups that contain captures, but it can lead to a lot of
+     stack use in large patterns. The old behaviour has been restored for atomic
+     groups that do not contain any capturing parentheses.
+. If the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE option was set for pcre_compile(), it did not
+     suppress the check for a minimum subject length at run time. (If it was
+     given to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() it did work.)
+. Fixed an ASCII-dependent infelicity in pcretest that would have made it
+     fail to work when decoding hex characters in data strings in EBCDIC
+     environments.
+. It appears that in at least one Mac OS environment, the isxdigit() function
+     is implemented as a macro that evaluates to its argument more than once,
+     contravening the C 90 Standard (I haven't checked a later standard). There
+     was an instance in pcretest which caused it to go wrong when processing
+     \x{...} escapes in subject strings. The has been rewritten to avoid using
+     things like p++ in the argument of isxdigit().
+ Version 8.13 16-Aug-2011
+ ------------------------
+.  The Unicode data tables have been updated to Unicode 6.0.0.
+.  Two minor typos in pcre_internal.h have been fixed.
+.  Added #include <string.h> to pcre_scanner_unittest.cc, pcrecpp.cc, and
+     pcrecpp_unittest.cc. They are needed for strcmp(), memset(), and strchr()
+     in some environments (e.g. Solaris 10/SPARC using Sun Studio 12U2).
+.  There were a number of related bugs in the code for matching backrefences
+     caselessly in UTF-8 mode when codes for the characters concerned were
+     different numbers of bytes. For example, U+023A and U+2C65 are an upper
+     and lower case pair, using 2 and 3 bytes, respectively. The main bugs were:
+     (a) A reference to 3 copies of a 2-byte code matched only 2 of a 3-byte
+     code. (b) A reference to 2 copies of a 3-byte code would not match 2 of a
+-byte code at the end of the subject (it thought there wasn't enough data
+     left).
+.  Comprehensive information about what went wrong is now returned by
+     pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec() when the UTF-8 string check fails, as long
+     as the output vector has at least 2 elements. The offset of the start of
+     the failing character and a reason code are placed in the vector.
+.  When the UTF-8 string check fails for pcre_compile(), the offset that is
+     now returned is for the first byte of the failing character, instead of the
+     last byte inspected. This is an incompatible change, but I hope it is small
+     enough not to be a problem. It makes the returned offset consistent with
+     pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec().
+.  pcretest now gives a text phrase as well as the error number when
+     pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() fails; if the error is a UTF-8 check
+     failure, the offset and reason code are output.
+.  When \R was used with a maximizing quantifier it failed to skip backwards
+     over a \r\n pair if the subsequent match failed. Instead, it just skipped
+     back over a single character (\n). This seems wrong (because it treated the
+     two characters as a single entity when going forwards), conflicts with the
+     documentation that \R is equivalent to (?>\r\n|\n|...etc), and makes the
+     behaviour of \R* different to (\R)*, which also seems wrong. The behaviour
+     has been changed.
+.  Some internal refactoring has changed the processing so that the handling
+     of the PCRE_CASELESS and PCRE_MULTILINE options is done entirely at compile
+     time (the PCRE_DOTALL option was changed this way some time ago: version
+.7 change 16). This has made it possible to abolish the OP_OPT op code,
+     which was always a bit of a fudge. It also means that there is one less
+     argument for the match() function, which reduces its stack requirements
+     slightly. This change also fixes an incompatibility with Perl: the pattern
+     (?i:([^b]))(?1) should not match "ab", but previously PCRE gave a match.
+. More internal refactoring has drastically reduced the number of recursive
+     calls to match() for possessively repeated groups such as (abc)++ when
+     using pcre_exec().
+. While implementing 10, a number of bugs in the handling of groups were
+     discovered and fixed:
+     (?<=(a)+) was not diagnosed as invalid (non-fixed-length lookbehind).
+     (a|)*(?1) gave a compile-time internal error.
+     ((a|)+)+  did not notice that the outer group could match an empty string.
+     (^a|^)+   was not marked as anchored.
+     (.*a|.*)+ was not marked as matching at start or after a newline.
+. Yet more internal refactoring has removed another argument from the match()
+     function. Special calls to this function are now indicated by setting a
+     value in a variable in the "match data" data block.
+. Be more explicit in pcre_study() instead of relying on "default" for
+     opcodes that mean there is no starting character; this means that when new
+     ones are added and accidentally left out of pcre_study(), testing should
+     pick them up.
+. The -s option of pcretest has been documented for ages as being an old
+     synonym of -m (show memory usage). I have changed it to mean "force study
+     for every regex", that is, assume /S for every regex. This is similar to -i
+     and -d etc. It's slightly incompatible, but I'm hoping nobody is still
+     using it. It makes it easier to run collections of tests with and without
+     study enabled, and thereby test pcre_study() more easily. All the standard
+     tests are now run with and without -s (but some patterns can be marked as
+     "never study" - see 20 below).
+. When (*ACCEPT) was used in a subpattern that was called recursively, the
+     restoration of the capturing data to the outer values was not happening
+     correctly.
+. If a recursively called subpattern ended with (*ACCEPT) and matched an
+     empty string, and PCRE_NOTEMPTY was set, pcre_exec() thought the whole
+     pattern had matched an empty string, and so incorrectly returned a no
+     match.
+. There was optimizing code for the last branch of non-capturing parentheses,
+     and also for the obeyed branch of a conditional subexpression, which used
+     tail recursion to cut down on stack usage. Unfortunately, now that there is
+     the possibility of (*THEN) occurring in these branches, tail recursion is
+     no longer possible because the return has to be checked for (*THEN). These
+     two optimizations have therefore been removed. [But see 8.20/11 above.]
+. If a pattern containing \R was studied, it was assumed that \R always
+     matched two bytes, thus causing the minimum subject length to be
+     incorrectly computed because \R can also match just one byte.
+. If a pattern containing (*ACCEPT) was studied, the minimum subject length
+     was incorrectly computed.
+. If /S is present twice on a test pattern in pcretest input, it now
+     *disables* studying, thereby overriding the use of -s on the command line
+     (see 14 above). This is necessary for one or two tests to keep the output
+     identical in both cases.
+. When (*ACCEPT) was used in an assertion that matched an empty string and
+     PCRE_NOTEMPTY was set, PCRE applied the non-empty test to the assertion.
+. When an atomic group that contained a capturing parenthesis was
+     successfully matched, but the branch in which it appeared failed, the
+     capturing was not being forgotten if a higher numbered group was later
+     captured. For example, /(?>(a))b|(a)c/ when matching "ac" set capturing
+     group 1 to "a", when in fact it should be unset. This applied to multi-
+     branched capturing and non-capturing groups, repeated or not, and also to
+     positive assertions (capturing in negative assertions does not happen
+     in PCRE) and also to nested atomic groups.
+. Add the ++ qualifier feature to pcretest, to show the remainder of the
+     subject after a captured substring, to make it easier to tell which of a
+     number of identical substrings has been captured.
+. The way atomic groups are processed by pcre_exec() has been changed so that
+     if they are repeated, backtracking one repetition now resets captured
+     values correctly. For example, if ((?>(a+)b)+aabab) is matched against
+     "aaaabaaabaabab" the value of captured group 2 is now correctly recorded as
+     "aaa". Previously, it would have been "a". As part of this code
+     refactoring, the way recursive calls are handled has also been changed.
+. If an assertion condition captured any substrings, they were not passed
+     back unless some other capturing happened later. For example, if
+     (?(?=(a))a) was matched against "a", no capturing was returned.
+. When studying a pattern that contained subroutine calls or assertions,
+     the code for finding the minimum length of a possible match was handling
+     direct recursions such as (xxx(?1)|yyy) but not mutual recursions (where
+     group 1 called group 2 while simultaneously a separate group 2 called group
+). A stack overflow occurred in this case. I have fixed this by limiting
+     the recursion depth to 10.
+. Updated RunTest.bat in the distribution to the version supplied by Tom
+     Fortmann. This supports explicit test numbers on the command line, and has
+     argument validation and error reporting.
+. An instance of \X with an unlimited repeat could fail if at any point the
+     first character it looked at was a mark character.
+. Some minor code refactoring concerning Unicode properties and scripts
+     should reduce the stack requirement of match() slightly.
+. Added the '=' option to pcretest to check the setting of unused capturing
+     slots at the end of the pattern, which are documented as being -1, but are
+     not included in the return count.
+. If \k was not followed by a braced, angle-bracketed, or quoted name, PCRE
+     compiled something random. Now it gives a compile-time error (as does
+     Perl).
+. A *MARK encountered during the processing of a positive assertion is now
+     recorded and passed back (compatible with Perl).
+. If --only-matching or --colour was set on a pcregrep call whose pattern
+     had alternative anchored branches, the search for a second match in a line
+     was done as if at the line start. Thus, for example, /^01|^02/ incorrectly
+     matched the line "0102" twice. The same bug affected patterns that started
+     with a backwards assertion. For example /\b01|\b02/ also matched "0102"
+     twice.
+. Previously, PCRE did not allow quantification of assertions. However, Perl
+     does, and because of capturing effects, quantifying parenthesized
+     assertions may at times be useful. Quantifiers are now allowed for
+     parenthesized assertions.
+. A minor code tidy in pcre_compile() when checking options for \R usage.
+. \g was being checked for fancy things in a character class, when it should
+     just be a literal "g".
+. PCRE was rejecting [:a[:digit:]] whereas Perl was not. It seems that the
+     appearance of a nested POSIX class supersedes an apparent external class.
+     For example, [:a[:digit:]b:] matches "a", "b", ":", or a digit. Also,
+     unescaped square brackets may also appear as part of class names. For
+     example, [:a[:abc]b:] gives unknown class "[:abc]b:]". PCRE now behaves
+     more like Perl. (But see 8.20/1 above.)
+. PCRE was giving an error for \N with a braced quantifier such as {1,} (this
+     was because it thought it was \N{name}, which is not supported).
+. Add minix to OS list not supporting the -S option in pcretest.
+. PCRE tries to detect cases of infinite recursion at compile time, but it
+     cannot analyze patterns in sufficient detail to catch mutual recursions
+     such as ((?1))((?2)). There is now a runtime test that gives an error if a
+     subgroup is called recursively as a subpattern for a second time at the
+     same position in the subject string. In previous releases this might have
+     been caught by the recursion limit, or it might have run out of stack.
+. A pattern such as /(?(R)a+|(?R)b)/ is quite safe, as the recursion can
+     happen only once. PCRE was, however incorrectly giving a compile time error
+     "recursive call could loop indefinitely" because it cannot analyze the
+     pattern in sufficient detail. The compile time test no longer happens when
+     PCRE is compiling a conditional subpattern, but actual runaway loops are
+     now caught at runtime (see 40 above).
+. It seems that Perl allows any characters other than a closing parenthesis
+     to be part of the NAME in (*MARK:NAME) and other backtracking verbs. PCRE
+     has been changed to be the same.
+. Updated configure.ac to put in more quoting round AC_LANG_PROGRAM etc. so
+     as not to get warnings when autogen.sh is called. Also changed
+     AC_PROG_LIBTOOL (deprecated) to LT_INIT (the current macro).
+. To help people who use pcregrep to scan files containing exceedingly long
+     lines, the following changes have been made:
+     (a) The default value of the buffer size parameter has been increased from
+K to 20K. (The actual buffer used is three times this size.)
+     (b) The default can be changed by ./configure --with-pcregrep-bufsize when
+         PCRE is built.
+     (c) A --buffer-size=n option has been added to pcregrep, to allow the size
+         to be set at run time.
+     (d) Numerical values in pcregrep options can be followed by K or M, for
+         example --buffer-size=50K.
+     (e) If a line being scanned overflows pcregrep's buffer, an error is now
+         given and the return code is set to 2.
+. Add a pointer to the latest mark to the callout data block.
+. The pattern /.(*F)/, when applied to "abc" with PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD, gave a
+     partial match of an empty string instead of no match. This was specific to
+     the use of ".".
+. The pattern /f.*/8s, when applied to "for" with PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD, gave a
+     complete match instead of a partial match. This bug was dependent on both
+     the PCRE_UTF8 and PCRE_DOTALL options being set.
+. For a pattern such as /\babc|\bdef/ pcre_study() was failing to set up the
+     starting byte set, because \b was not being ignored.
+ Version 8.12 15-Jan-2011
+ ------------------------
+.  Fixed some typos in the markup of the man pages, and wrote a script that
+     checks for such things as part of the documentation building process.
+.  On a big-endian 64-bit system, pcregrep did not correctly process the
+     --match-limit and --recursion-limit options (added for 8.11). In
+     particular, this made one of the standard tests fail. (The integer value
+     went into the wrong half of a long int.)
+.  If the --colour option was given to pcregrep with -v (invert match), it
+     did strange things, either producing crazy output, or crashing. It should,
+     of course, ignore a request for colour when reporting lines that do not
+     match.
+.  Another pcregrep bug caused similar problems if --colour was specified with
+     -M (multiline) and the pattern match finished with a line ending.
+.  In pcregrep, when a pattern that ended with a literal newline sequence was
+     matched in multiline mode, the following line was shown as part of the
+     match. This seems wrong, so I have changed it.
+.  Another pcregrep bug in multiline mode, when --colour was specified, caused
+     the check for further matches in the same line (so they could be coloured)
+     to overrun the end of the current line. If another match was found, it was
+     incorrectly shown (and then shown again when found in the next line).
+.  If pcregrep was compiled under Windows, there was a reference to the
+     function pcregrep_exit() before it was defined. I am assuming this was
+     the cause of the "error C2371: 'pcregrep_exit' : redefinition;" that was
+     reported by a user. I've moved the definition above the reference.
+ Version 8.11 10-Dec-2010
+ ------------------------
+.  (*THEN) was not working properly if there were untried alternatives prior
+     to it in the current branch. For example, in ((a|b)(*THEN)(*F)|c..) it
+     backtracked to try for "b" instead of moving to the next alternative branch
+     at the same level (in this case, to look for "c"). The Perl documentation
+     is clear that when (*THEN) is backtracked onto, it goes to the "next
+     alternative in the innermost enclosing group".
+.  (*COMMIT) was not overriding (*THEN), as it does in Perl. In a pattern
+     such as   (A(*COMMIT)B(*THEN)C|D)  any failure after matching A should
+     result in overall failure. Similarly, (*COMMIT) now overrides (*PRUNE) and
+     (*SKIP), (*SKIP) overrides (*PRUNE) and (*THEN), and (*PRUNE) overrides
+     (*THEN).
+.  If \s appeared in a character class, it removed the VT character from
+     the class, even if it had been included by some previous item, for example
+     in [\x00-\xff\s]. (This was a bug related to the fact that VT is not part
+     of \s, but is part of the POSIX "space" class.)
+.  A partial match never returns an empty string (because you can always
+     match an empty string at the end of the subject); however the checking for
+     an empty string was starting at the "start of match" point. This has been
+     changed to the "earliest inspected character" point, because the returned
+     data for a partial match starts at this character. This means that, for
+     example, /(?<=abc)def/ gives a partial match for the subject "abc"
+     (previously it gave "no match").
+.  Changes have been made to the way PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD affects the matching
+     of $, \z, \Z, \b, and \B. If the match point is at the end of the string,
+     previously a full match would be given. However, setting PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD
+     has an implication that the given string is incomplete (because a partial
+     match is preferred over a full match). For this reason, these items now
+     give a partial match in this situation. [Aside: previously, the one case
+     /t\b/ matched against "cat" with PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD set did return a partial
+     match rather than a full match, which was wrong by the old rules, but is
+     now correct.]
+.  There was a bug in the handling of #-introduced comments, recognized when
+     PCRE_EXTENDED is set, when PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY and PCRE_UTF8 were also set.
+     If a UTF-8 multi-byte character included the byte 0x85 (e.g. +U0445, whose
+     UTF-8 encoding is 0xd1,0x85), this was misinterpreted as a newline when
+     scanning for the end of the comment. (*Character* 0x85 is an "any" newline,
+     but *byte* 0x85 is not, in UTF-8 mode). This bug was present in several
+     places in pcre_compile().
+.  Related to (6) above, when pcre_compile() was skipping #-introduced
+     comments when looking ahead for named forward references to subpatterns,
+     the only newline sequence it recognized was NL. It now handles newlines
+     according to the set newline convention.
+.  SunOS4 doesn't have strerror() or strtoul(); pcregrep dealt with the
+     former, but used strtoul(), whereas pcretest avoided strtoul() but did not
+     cater for a lack of strerror(). These oversights have been fixed.
+.  Added --match-limit and --recursion-limit to pcregrep.
+. Added two casts needed to build with Visual Studio when NO_RECURSE is set.
+. When the -o option was used, pcregrep was setting a return code of 1, even
+     when matches were found, and --line-buffered was not being honoured.
+. Added an optional parentheses number to the -o and --only-matching options
+     of pcregrep.
+. Imitating Perl's /g action for multiple matches is tricky when the pattern
+     can match an empty string. The code to do it in pcretest and pcredemo
+     needed fixing:
+     (a) When the newline convention was "crlf", pcretest got it wrong, skipping
+         only one byte after an empty string match just before CRLF (this case
+         just got forgotten; "any" and "anycrlf" were OK).
+     (b) The pcretest code also had a bug, causing it to loop forever in UTF-8
+         mode when an empty string match preceded an ASCII character followed by
+         a non-ASCII character. (The code for advancing by one character rather
+         than one byte was nonsense.)
+     (c) The pcredemo.c sample program did not have any code at all to handle
+         the cases when CRLF is a valid newline sequence.
+. Neither pcre_exec() nor pcre_dfa_exec() was checking that the value given
+     as a starting offset was within the subject string. There is now a new
+     error, PCRE_ERROR_BADOFFSET, which is returned if the starting offset is
+     negative or greater than the length of the string. In order to test this,
+     pcretest is extended to allow the setting of negative starting offsets.
+. In both pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec() the code for checking that the
+     starting offset points to the beginning of a UTF-8 character was
+     unnecessarily clumsy. I tidied it up.
+. Added PCRE_ERROR_SHORTUTF8 to make it possible to distinguish between a
+     bad UTF-8 sequence and one that is incomplete when using PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD.
+. Nobody had reported that the --include_dir option, which was added in
+     release 7.7 should have been called --include-dir (hyphen, not underscore)
+     for compatibility with GNU grep. I have changed it to --include-dir, but
+     left --include_dir as an undocumented synonym, and the same for
+     --exclude-dir, though that is not available in GNU grep, at least as of
+     release 2.5.4.
+. At a user's suggestion, the macros GETCHAR and friends (which pick up UTF-8
+     characters from a string of bytes) have been redefined so as not to use
+     loops, in order to improve performance in some environments. At the same
+     time, I abstracted some of the common code into auxiliary macros to save
+     repetition (this should not affect the compiled code).
+. If \c was followed by a multibyte UTF-8 character, bad things happened. A
+     compile-time error is now given if \c is not followed by an ASCII
+     character, that is, a byte less than 128. (In EBCDIC mode, the code is
+     different, and any byte value is allowed.)
+. Recognize (*NO_START_OPT) at the start of a pattern to set the PCRE_NO_
+     START_OPTIMIZE option, which is now allowed at compile time - but just
+     passed through to pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec(). This makes it available
+     to pcregrep and other applications that have no direct access to PCRE
+     options. The new /Y option in pcretest sets this option when calling
+     pcre_compile().
+. Change 18 of release 8.01 broke the use of named subpatterns for recursive
+     back references. Groups containing recursive back references were forced to
+     be atomic by that change, but in the case of named groups, the amount of
+     memory required was incorrectly computed, leading to "Failed: internal
+     error: code overflow". This has been fixed.
+. Some patches to pcre_stringpiece.h, pcre_stringpiece_unittest.cc, and
+     pcretest.c, to avoid build problems in some Borland environments.
+ Version 8.10 25-Jun-2010
+ ------------------------
+.  Added support for (*MARK:ARG) and for ARG additions to PRUNE, SKIP, and
+     THEN.
+.  (*ACCEPT) was not working when inside an atomic group.
+.  Inside a character class, \B is treated as a literal by default, but
+     faulted if PCRE_EXTRA is set. This mimics Perl's behaviour (the -w option
+     causes the error). The code is unchanged, but I tidied the documentation.
+.  Inside a character class, PCRE always treated \R and \X as literals,
+     whereas Perl faults them if its -w option is set. I have changed PCRE so
+     that it faults them when PCRE_EXTRA is set.
+.  Added support for \N, which always matches any character other than
+     newline. (It is the same as "." when PCRE_DOTALL is not set.)
+.  When compiling pcregrep with newer versions of gcc which may have
+     FORTIFY_SOURCE set, several warnings "ignoring return value of 'fwrite',
+     declared with attribute warn_unused_result" were given. Just casting the
+     result to (void) does not stop the warnings; a more elaborate fudge is
+     needed. I've used a macro to implement this.
+.  Minor change to pcretest.c to avoid a compiler warning.
+.  Added four artifical Unicode properties to help with an option to make
+     \s etc use properties (see next item). The new properties are: Xan
+     (alphanumeric), Xsp (Perl space), Xps (POSIX space), and Xwd (word).
+.  Added PCRE_UCP to make \b, \d, \s, \w, and certain POSIX character classes
+     use Unicode properties. (*UCP) at the start of a pattern can be used to set
+     this option. Modified pcretest to add /W to test this facility. Added
+     REG_UCP to make it available via the POSIX interface.
+. Added --line-buffered to pcregrep.
+. In UTF-8 mode, if a pattern that was compiled with PCRE_CASELESS was
+     studied, and the match started with a letter with a code point greater than
+whose first byte was different to the first byte of the other case of
+     the letter, the other case of this starting letter was not recognized
+     (#976).
+. If a pattern that was studied started with a repeated Unicode property
+     test, for example, \p{Nd}+, there was the theoretical possibility of
+     setting up an incorrect bitmap of starting bytes, but fortunately it could
+     not have actually happened in practice until change 8 above was made (it
+     added property types that matched character-matching opcodes).
+. pcre_study() now recognizes \h, \v, and \R when constructing a bit map of
+     possible starting bytes for non-anchored patterns.
+. Extended the "auto-possessify" feature of pcre_compile(). It now recognizes
+     \R, and also a number of cases that involve Unicode properties, both
+     explicit and implicit when PCRE_UCP is set.
+. If a repeated Unicode property match (e.g. \p{Lu}*) was used with non-UTF-8
+     input, it could crash or give wrong results if characters with values
+     greater than 0xc0 were present in the subject string. (Detail: it assumed
+     UTF-8 input when processing these items.)
+. Added a lot of (int) casts to avoid compiler warnings in systems where
+     size_t is 64-bit (#991).
+. Added a check for running out of memory when PCRE is compiled with
+     --disable-stack-for-recursion (#990).
+. If the last data line in a file for pcretest does not have a newline on
+     the end, a newline was missing in the output.
+. The default pcre_chartables.c file recognizes only ASCII characters (values
+     less than 128) in its various bitmaps. However, there is a facility for
+     generating tables according to the current locale when PCRE is compiled. It
+     turns out that in some environments, 0x85 and 0xa0, which are Unicode space
+     characters, are recognized by isspace() and therefore were getting set in
+     these tables, and indeed these tables seem to approximate to ISO 8859. This
+     caused a problem in UTF-8 mode when pcre_study() was used to create a list
+     of bytes that can start a match. For \s, it was including 0x85 and 0xa0,
+     which of course cannot start UTF-8 characters. I have changed the code so
+     that only real ASCII characters (less than 128) and the correct starting
+     bytes for UTF-8 encodings are set for characters greater than 127 when in
+     UTF-8 mode. (When PCRE_UCP is set - see 9 above - the code is different
+     altogether.)
+. Added the /T option to pcretest so as to be able to run tests with non-
+     standard character tables, thus making it possible to include the tests
+     used for 19 above in the standard set of tests.
+. A pattern such as (?&t)(?#()(?(DEFINE)(?<t>a)) which has a forward
+     reference to a subpattern the other side of a comment that contains an
+     opening parenthesis caused either an internal compiling error, or a
+     reference to the wrong subpattern.
+ Version 8.02 19-Mar-2010
+ ------------------------
+.  The Unicode data tables have been updated to Unicode 5.2.0.
+.  Added the option --libs-cpp to pcre-config, but only when C++ support is
+     configured.
+.  Updated the licensing terms in the pcregexp.pas file, as agreed with the
+     original author of that file, following a query about its status.
+.  On systems that do not have stdint.h (e.g. Solaris), check for and include
+     inttypes.h instead. This fixes a bug that was introduced by change 8.01/8.
+.  A pattern such as (?&t)*+(?(DEFINE)(?<t>.)) which has a possessive
+     quantifier applied to a forward-referencing subroutine call, could compile
+     incorrect code or give the error "internal error: previously-checked
+     referenced subpattern not found".
+.  Both MS Visual Studio and Symbian OS have problems with initializing
+     variables to point to external functions. For these systems, therefore,
+     pcre_malloc etc. are now initialized to local functions that call the
+     relevant global functions.
+.  There were two entries missing in the vectors called coptable and poptable
+     in pcre_dfa_exec.c. This could lead to memory accesses outsize the vectors.
+     I've fixed the data, and added a kludgy way of testing at compile time that
+     the lengths are correct (equal to the number of opcodes).
+.  Following on from 7, I added a similar kludge to check the length of the
+     eint vector in pcreposix.c.
+.  Error texts for pcre_compile() are held as one long string to avoid too
+     much relocation at load time. To find a text, the string is searched,
+     counting zeros. There was no check for running off the end of the string,
+     which could happen if a new error number was added without updating the
+     string.
+. \K gave a compile-time error if it appeared in a lookbehind assersion.
+. \K was not working if it appeared in an atomic group or in a group that
+     was called as a "subroutine", or in an assertion. Perl 5.11 documents that
+     \K is "not well defined" if used in an assertion. PCRE now accepts it if
+     the assertion is positive, but not if it is negative.
+. Change 11 fortuitously reduced the size of the stack frame used in the
+     "match()" function of pcre_exec.c by one pointer. Forthcoming
+     implementation of support for (*MARK) will need an extra pointer on the
+     stack; I have reserved it now, so that the stack frame size does not
+     decrease.
+. A pattern such as (?P<L1>(?P<L2>0)|(?P>L2)(?P>L1)) in which the only other
+     item in branch that calls a recursion is a subroutine call - as in the
+     second branch in the above example - was incorrectly given the compile-
+     time error "recursive call could loop indefinitely" because pcre_compile()
+     was not correctly checking the subroutine for matching a non-empty string.
+. The checks for overrunning compiling workspace could trigger after an
+     overrun had occurred. This is a "should never occur" error, but it can be
+     triggered by pathological patterns such as hundreds of nested parentheses.
+     The checks now trigger 100 bytes before the end of the workspace.
+. Fix typo in configure.ac: "srtoq" should be "strtoq".
+ Version 8.01 19-Jan-2010
+ ------------------------
+.  If a pattern contained a conditional subpattern with only one branch (in
+     particular, this includes all (*DEFINE) patterns), a call to pcre_study()
+     computed the wrong minimum data length (which is of course zero for such
+     subpatterns). This could cause incorrect "no match" results.
+.  For patterns such as (?i)a(?-i)b|c where an option setting at the start of
+     the pattern is reset in the first branch, pcre_compile() failed with
+     "internal error: code overflow at offset...". This happened only when
+     the reset was to the original external option setting. (An optimization
+     abstracts leading options settings into an external setting, which was the
+     cause of this.)
+.  A pattern such as ^(?!a(*SKIP)b) where a negative assertion contained one
+     of the verbs SKIP, PRUNE, or COMMIT, did not work correctly. When the
+     assertion pattern did not match (meaning that the assertion was true), it
+     was incorrectly treated as false if the SKIP had been reached during the
+     matching. This also applied to assertions used as conditions.
+.  If an item that is not supported by pcre_dfa_exec() was encountered in an
+     assertion subpattern, including such a pattern used as a condition,
+     unpredictable results occurred, instead of the error return
+     PCRE_ERROR_DFA_UITEM.
+.  The C++ GlobalReplace function was not working like Perl for the special
+     situation when an empty string is matched. It now does the fancy magic
+     stuff that is necessary.
+.  In pcre_internal.h, obsolete includes to setjmp.h and stdarg.h have been
+     removed. (These were left over from very, very early versions of PCRE.)
+.  Some cosmetic changes to the code to make life easier when compiling it
+     as part of something else:
+     (a) Change DEBUG to PCRE_DEBUG.
+     (b) In pcre_compile(), rename the member of the "branch_chain" structure
+         called "current" as "current_branch", to prevent a collision with the
+         Linux macro when compiled as a kernel module.
+     (c) In pcre_study(), rename the function set_bit() as set_table_bit(), to
+         prevent a collision with the Linux macro when compiled as a kernel
+         module.
+.  In pcre_compile() there are some checks for integer overflows that used to
+     cast potentially large values to (double). This has been changed to that
+     when building, a check for int64_t is made, and if it is found, it is used
+     instead, thus avoiding the use of floating point arithmetic. (There is no
+     other use of FP in PCRE.) If int64_t is not found, the fallback is to
+     double.
+.  Added two casts to avoid signed/unsigned warnings from VS Studio Express
+(difference between two addresses compared to an unsigned value).
+. Change the standard AC_CHECK_LIB test for libbz2 in configure.ac to a
+     custom one, because of the following reported problem in Windows:
+       - libbz2 uses the Pascal calling convention (WINAPI) for the functions
+           under Win32.
+       - The standard autoconf AC_CHECK_LIB fails to include "bzlib.h",
+           therefore missing the function definition.
+       - The compiler thus generates a "C" signature for the test function.
+       - The linker fails to find the "C" function.
+       - PCRE fails to configure if asked to do so against libbz2.
+. When running libtoolize from libtool-2.2.6b as part of autogen.sh, these
+     messages were output:
+       Consider adding `AC_CONFIG_MACRO_DIR([m4])' to configure.ac and
+       rerunning libtoolize, to keep the correct libtool macros in-tree.
+       Consider adding `-I m4' to ACLOCAL_AMFLAGS in Makefile.am.
+     I have done both of these things.
+. Although pcre_dfa_exec() does not use nearly as much stack as pcre_exec()
+     most of the time, it *can* run out if it is given a pattern that contains a
+     runaway infinite recursion. I updated the discussion in the pcrestack man
+     page.
+. Now that we have gone to the x.xx style of version numbers, the minor
+     version may start with zero. Using 08 or 09 is a bad idea because users
+     might check the value of PCRE_MINOR in their code, and 08 or 09 may be
+     interpreted as invalid octal numbers. I've updated the previous comment in
+     configure.ac, and also added a check that gives an error if 08 or 09 are
+     used.
+. Change 8.00/11 was not quite complete: code had been accidentally omitted,
+     causing partial matching to fail when the end of the subject matched \W
+     in a UTF-8 pattern where \W was quantified with a minimum of 3.
+. There were some discrepancies between the declarations in pcre_internal.h
+     of _pcre_is_newline(), _pcre_was_newline(), and _pcre_valid_utf8() and
+     their definitions. The declarations used "const uschar *" and the
+     definitions used USPTR. Even though USPTR is normally defined as "const
+     unsigned char *" (and uschar is typedeffed as "unsigned char"), it was
+     reported that: "This difference in casting confuses some C++ compilers, for
+     example, SunCC recognizes above declarations as different functions and
+     generates broken code for hbpcre." I have changed the declarations to use
+     USPTR.
+. GNU libtool is named differently on some systems. The autogen.sh script now
+     tries several variants such as glibtoolize (MacOSX) and libtoolize1x
+     (FreeBSD).
+. Applied Craig's patch that fixes an HP aCC compile error in pcre 8.00
+     (strtoXX undefined when compiling pcrecpp.cc). The patch contains this
+     comment: "Figure out how to create a longlong from a string: strtoll and
+     equivalent. It's not enough to call AC_CHECK_FUNCS: hpux has a strtoll, for
+     instance, but it only takes 2 args instead of 3!"
+. A subtle bug concerned with back references has been fixed by a change of
+     specification, with a corresponding code fix. A pattern such as
+     ^(xa|=?\1a)+$ which contains a back reference inside the group to which it
+     refers, was giving matches when it shouldn't. For example, xa=xaaa would
+     match that pattern. Interestingly, Perl (at least up to 5.11.3) has the
+     same bug. Such groups have to be quantified to be useful, or contained
+     inside another quantified group. (If there's no repetition, the reference
+     can never match.) The problem arises because, having left the group and
+     moved on to the rest of the pattern, a later failure that backtracks into
+     the group uses the captured value from the final iteration of the group
+     rather than the correct earlier one. I have fixed this in PCRE by forcing
+     any group that contains a reference to itself to be an atomic group; that
+     is, there cannot be any backtracking into it once it has completed. This is
+     similar to recursive and subroutine calls.
+ Version 8.00 19-Oct-09
+ ----------------------
+.  The table for translating pcre_compile() error codes into POSIX error codes
+     was out-of-date, and there was no check on the pcre_compile() error code
+     being within the table. This could lead to an OK return being given in
+     error.
+.  Changed the call to open a subject file in pcregrep from fopen(pathname,
+     "r") to fopen(pathname, "rb"), which fixed a problem with some of the tests
+     in a Windows environment.
+.  The pcregrep --count option prints the count for each file even when it is
+     zero, as does GNU grep. However, pcregrep was also printing all files when
+     --files-with-matches was added. Now, when both options are given, it prints
+     counts only for those files that have at least one match. (GNU grep just
+     prints the file name in this circumstance, but including the count seems
+     more useful - otherwise, why use --count?) Also ensured that the
+     combination -clh just lists non-zero counts, with no names.
+.  The long form of the pcregrep -F option was incorrectly implemented as
+     --fixed_strings instead of --fixed-strings. This is an incompatible change,
+     but it seems right to fix it, and I didn't think it was worth preserving
+     the old behaviour.
+.  The command line items --regex=pattern and --regexp=pattern were not
+     recognized by pcregrep, which required --regex pattern or --regexp pattern
+     (with a space rather than an '='). The man page documented the '=' forms,
+     which are compatible with GNU grep; these now work.
+.  No libpcreposix.pc file was created for pkg-config; there was just
+     libpcre.pc and libpcrecpp.pc. The omission has been rectified.
+.  Added #ifndef SUPPORT_UCP into the pcre_ucd.c module, to reduce its size
+     when UCP support is not needed, by modifying the Python script that
+     generates it from Unicode data files. This should not matter if the module
+     is correctly used as a library, but I received one complaint about 50K of
+     unwanted data. My guess is that the person linked everything into his
+     program rather than using a library. Anyway, it does no harm.
+.  A pattern such as /\x{123}{2,2}+/8 was incorrectly compiled; the trigger
+     was a minimum greater than 1 for a wide character in a possessive
+     repetition. The same bug could also affect patterns like /(\x{ff}{0,2})*/8
+     which had an unlimited repeat of a nested, fixed maximum repeat of a wide
+     character. Chaos in the form of incorrect output or a compiling loop could
+     result.
+.  The restrictions on what a pattern can contain when partial matching is
+     requested for pcre_exec() have been removed. All patterns can now be
+     partially matched by this function. In addition, if there are at least two
+     slots in the offset vector, the offset of the earliest inspected character
+     for the match and the offset of the end of the subject are set in them when
+     PCRE_ERROR_PARTIAL is returned.
+. Partial matching has been split into two forms: PCRE_PARTIAL_SOFT, which is
+     synonymous with PCRE_PARTIAL, for backwards compatibility, and
+     PCRE_PARTIAL_HARD, which causes a partial match to supersede a full match,
+     and may be more useful for multi-segment matching.
+. Partial matching with pcre_exec() is now more intuitive. A partial match
+     used to be given if ever the end of the subject was reached; now it is
+     given only if matching could not proceed because another character was
+     needed. This makes a difference in some odd cases such as Z(*FAIL) with the
+     string "Z", which now yields "no match" instead of "partial match". In the
+     case of pcre_dfa_exec(), "no match" is given if every matching path for the
+     final character ended with (*FAIL).
+. Restarting a match using pcre_dfa_exec() after a partial match did not work
+     if the pattern had a "must contain" character that was already found in the
+     earlier partial match, unless partial matching was again requested. For
+     example, with the pattern /dog.(body)?/, the "must contain" character is
+     "g". If the first part-match was for the string "dog", restarting with
+     "sbody" failed. This bug has been fixed.
+. The string returned by pcre_dfa_exec() after a partial match has been
+     changed so that it starts at the first inspected character rather than the
+     first character of the match. This makes a difference only if the pattern
+     starts with a lookbehind assertion or \b or \B (\K is not supported by
+     pcre_dfa_exec()). It's an incompatible change, but it makes the two
+     matching functions compatible, and I think it's the right thing to do.
+. Added a pcredemo man page, created automatically from the pcredemo.c file,
+     so that the demonstration program is easily available in environments where
+     PCRE has not been installed from source.
+. Arranged to add -DPCRE_STATIC to cflags in libpcre.pc, libpcreposix.cp,
+     libpcrecpp.pc and pcre-config when PCRE is not compiled as a shared
+     library.
+. Added REG_UNGREEDY to the pcreposix interface, at the request of a user.
+     It maps to PCRE_UNGREEDY. It is not, of course, POSIX-compatible, but it
+     is not the first non-POSIX option to be added. Clearly some people find
+     these options useful.
+. If a caller to the POSIX matching function regexec() passes a non-zero
+     value for nmatch with a NULL value for pmatch, the value of
+     nmatch is forced to zero.
+. RunGrepTest did not have a test for the availability of the -u option of
+     the diff command, as RunTest does. It now checks in the same way as
+     RunTest, and also checks for the -b option.
+. If an odd number of negated classes containing just a single character
+     interposed, within parentheses, between a forward reference to a named
+     subpattern and the definition of the subpattern, compilation crashed with
+     an internal error, complaining that it could not find the referenced
+     subpattern. An example of a crashing pattern is /(?&A)(([^m])(?<A>))/.
+     [The bug was that it was starting one character too far in when skipping
+     over the character class, thus treating the ] as data rather than
+     terminating the class. This meant it could skip too much.]
+. Added PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART in order to be able to correctly implement the
+     /g option in pcretest when the pattern contains \K, which makes it possible
+     to have an empty string match not at the start, even when the pattern is
+     anchored. Updated pcretest and pcredemo to use this option.
+. If the maximum number of capturing subpatterns in a recursion was greater
+     than the maximum at the outer level, the higher number was returned, but
+     with unset values at the outer level. The correct (outer level) value is
+     now given.
+. If (*ACCEPT) appeared inside capturing parentheses, previous releases of
+     PCRE did not set those parentheses (unlike Perl). I have now found a way to
+     make it do so. The string so far is captured, making this feature
+     compatible with Perl.
+. The tests have been re-organized, adding tests 11 and 12, to make it
+     possible to check the Perl 5.10 features against Perl 5.10.
+. Perl 5.10 allows subroutine calls in lookbehinds, as long as the subroutine
+     pattern matches a fixed length string. PCRE did not allow this; now it
+     does. Neither allows recursion.
+. I finally figured out how to implement a request to provide the minimum
+     length of subject string that was needed in order to match a given pattern.
+     (It was back references and recursion that I had previously got hung up
+     on.) This code has now been added to pcre_study(); it finds a lower bound
+     to the length of subject needed. It is not necessarily the greatest lower
+     bound, but using it to avoid searching strings that are too short does give
+     some useful speed-ups. The value is available to calling programs via
+     pcre_fullinfo().
+. While implementing 25, I discovered to my embarrassment that pcretest had
+     not been passing the result of pcre_study() to pcre_dfa_exec(), so the
+     study optimizations had never been tested with that matching function.
+     Oops. What is worse, even when it was passed study data, there was a bug in
+     pcre_dfa_exec() that meant it never actually used it. Double oops. There
+     were also very few tests of studied patterns with pcre_dfa_exec().
+. If (?| is used to create subpatterns with duplicate numbers, they are now
+     allowed to have the same name, even if PCRE_DUPNAMES is not set. However,
+     on the other side of the coin, they are no longer allowed to have different
+     names, because these cannot be distinguished in PCRE, and this has caused
+     confusion. (This is a difference from Perl.)
+. When duplicate subpattern names are present (necessarily with different
+     numbers, as required by 27 above), and a test is made by name in a
+     conditional pattern, either for a subpattern having been matched, or for
+     recursion in such a pattern, all the associated numbered subpatterns are
+     tested, and the overall condition is true if the condition is true for any
+     one of them. This is the way Perl works, and is also more like the way
+     testing by number works.
+ Version 7.9 11-Apr-09
+ ---------------------
+.  When building with support for bzlib/zlib (pcregrep) and/or readline
+     (pcretest), all targets were linked against these libraries. This included
+     libpcre, libpcreposix, and libpcrecpp, even though they do not use these
+     libraries. This caused unwanted dependencies to be created. This problem
+     has been fixed, and now only pcregrep is linked with bzlib/zlib and only
+     pcretest is linked with readline.
+.  The "typedef int BOOL" in pcre_internal.h that was included inside the
+     "#ifndef FALSE" condition by an earlier change (probably 7.8/18) has been
+     moved outside it again, because FALSE and TRUE are already defined in AIX,
+     but BOOL is not.
+.  The pcre_config() function was treating the PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT and
+     PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION values as ints, when they should be long ints.
+.  The pcregrep documentation said spaces were inserted as well as colons (or
+     hyphens) following file names and line numbers when outputting matching
+     lines. This is not true; no spaces are inserted. I have also clarified the
+     wording for the --colour (or --color) option.
+.  In pcregrep, when --colour was used with -o, the list of matching strings
+     was not coloured; this is different to GNU grep, so I have changed it to be
+     the same.
+.  When --colo(u)r was used in pcregrep, only the first matching substring in
+     each matching line was coloured. Now it goes on to look for further matches
+     of any of the test patterns, which is the same behaviour as GNU grep.
+.  A pattern that could match an empty string could cause pcregrep to loop; it
+     doesn't make sense to accept an empty string match in pcregrep, so I have
+     locked it out (using PCRE's PCRE_NOTEMPTY option). By experiment, this
+     seems to be how GNU grep behaves.
+.  The pattern (?(?=.*b)b|^) was incorrectly compiled as "match must be at
+     start or after a newline", because the conditional assertion was not being
+     correctly handled. The rule now is that both the assertion and what follows
+     in the first alternative must satisfy the test.
+.  If auto-callout was enabled in a pattern with a conditional group whose
+     condition was an assertion, PCRE could crash during matching, both with
+     pcre_exec() and pcre_dfa_exec().
+. The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option was not working when pcre_dfa_exec() was
+     used for matching.
+. Unicode property support in character classes was not working for
+     characters (bytes) greater than 127 when not in UTF-8 mode.
+. Added the -M command line option to pcretest.
+. Added the non-standard REG_NOTEMPTY option to the POSIX interface.
+. Added the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE match-time option.
+. Added comments and documentation about mis-use of no_arg in the C++
+     wrapper.
+. Implemented support for UTF-8 encoding in EBCDIC environments, a patch
+     from Martin Jerabek that uses macro names for all relevant character and
+     string constants.
+. Added to pcre_internal.h two configuration checks: (a) If both EBCDIC and
+     SUPPORT_UTF8 are set, give an error; (b) If SUPPORT_UCP is set without
+     SUPPORT_UTF8, define SUPPORT_UTF8. The "configure" script handles both of
+     these, but not everybody uses configure.
+. A conditional group that had only one branch was not being correctly
+     recognized as an item that could match an empty string. This meant that an
+     enclosing group might also not be so recognized, causing infinite looping
+     (and probably a segfault) for patterns such as ^"((?(?=[a])[^"])|b)*"$
+     with the subject "ab", where knowledge that the repeated group can match
+     nothing is needed in order to break the loop.
+. If a pattern that was compiled with callouts was matched using pcre_dfa_
+     exec(), but without supplying a callout function, matching went wrong.
+. If PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT occurred during a recursion, there was a memory
+     leak if the size of the offset vector was greater than 30. When the vector
+     is smaller, the saved offsets during recursion go onto a local stack
+     vector, but for larger vectors malloc() is used. It was failing to free
+     when the recursion yielded PCRE_ERROR_MATCH_LIMIT (or any other "abnormal"
+     error, in fact).
+. There was a missing #ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8 round one of the variables in the
+     heapframe that is used only when UTF-8 support is enabled. This caused no
+     problem, but was untidy.
+. Steven Van Ingelgem's patch to CMakeLists.txt to change the name
+     CMAKE_BINARY_DIR to PROJECT_BINARY_DIR so that it works when PCRE is
+     included within another project.
+. Steven Van Ingelgem's patches to add more options to the CMake support,
+     slightly modified by me:
+       (a) PCRE_BUILD_TESTS can be set OFF not to build the tests, including
+           not building pcregrep.
+       (b) PCRE_BUILD_PCREGREP can be see OFF not to build pcregrep, but only
+           if PCRE_BUILD_TESTS is also set OFF, because the tests use pcregrep.
+. Forward references, both numeric and by name, in patterns that made use of
+     duplicate group numbers, could behave incorrectly or give incorrect errors,
+     because when scanning forward to find the reference group, PCRE was not
+     taking into account the duplicate group numbers. A pattern such as
+     ^X(?3)(a)(?|(b)|(q))(Y) is an example.
+. Changed a few more instances of "const unsigned char *" to USPTR, making
+     the feature of a custom pointer more persuasive (as requested by a user).
+. Wrapped the definitions of fileno and isatty for Windows, which appear in
+     pcretest.c, inside #ifndefs, because it seems they are sometimes already
+     pre-defined.
+. Added support for (*UTF8) at the start of a pattern.
+. Arrange for flags added by the "release type" setting in CMake to be shown
+     in the configuration summary.
+ Version 7.8 05-Sep-08
+ ---------------------
+.  Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad
+     Muncher (http://www.admuncher.com/) by Peter Kankowski. This uses a two-
+     stage table and inline lookup instead of a function, giving speed ups of 2
+     to 5 times on some simple patterns that I tested. Permission was given to
+     distribute the MultiStage2.py script that generates the tables (it's not in
+     the tarball, but is in the Subversion repository).
+.  Updated the Unicode datatables to Unicode 5.1.0. This adds yet more
+     scripts.
+.  Change 12 for 7.7 introduced a bug in pcre_study() when a pattern contained
+     a group with a zero qualifier. The result of the study could be incorrect,
+     or the function might crash, depending on the pattern.
+.  Caseless matching was not working for non-ASCII characters in back
+     references. For example, /(\x{de})\1/8i was not matching \x{de}\x{fe}.
+     It now works when Unicode Property Support is available.
+.  In pcretest, an escape such as \x{de} in the data was always generating
+     a UTF-8 string, even in non-UTF-8 mode. Now it generates a single byte in
+     non-UTF-8 mode. If the value is greater than 255, it gives a warning about
+     truncation.
+.  Minor bugfix in pcrecpp.cc (change "" == ... to NULL == ...).
+.  Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two
+     pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.
+.  Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to
+     test 2 if it fails.
+.  Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions,
+     and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to
+     allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.
+. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from
+     the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.
+. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives
+     could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in
+     some environments:
+       printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest
+     This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371.
+. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately
+     after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and
+     pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was
+     no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified
+     pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer.
+. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_
+     exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode.
+. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and
+     the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its
+     first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching.
+. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example,
+     /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc".
+. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h.
+. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from
+     pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts.
+. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings.
+. Updated the Virtual Pascal + BCC files to compile the latest v7.7, as
+     supplied by Stefan Weber. I made a further small update for 7.8 because
+     there is a change of source arrangements: the pcre_searchfuncs.c module is
+     replaced by pcre_ucd.c.
+ Version 7.7 07-May-08
+ ---------------------
+.  Applied Craig's patch to sort out a long long problem: "If we can't convert
+     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.
+. There was a typo in the file ucpinternal.h where f0_rangeflag was defined
+     as 0x00f00000 instead of 0x00800000. Luckily, this would not have caused
+     any errors with the current Unicode tables. Thanks to Peter Kankowski for
+     spotting this.
+ 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 132html script that I use to generate
+     HTML has been updated to handle .nf/.fi and to complain if it encounters
+     .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, with the name
+     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
+     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
+     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.
+     Later: more #ifdefs are needed in pcre_ord2utf8.c and pcre_valid_utf8.c
+     so as not to refer to the tables, even though these functions will never be
+     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.
+ Version 7.0 19-Dec-06
+ ---------------------
+. Fixed a signed/unsigned compiler warning in pcre_compile.c, shown up by
+     moving to gcc 4.1.1.
+. The -S option for pcretest uses setrlimit(); I had omitted to #include
+     sys/time.h, which is documented as needed for this function. It doesn't
+     seem to matter on Linux, but it showed up on some releases of OS X.
+. It seems that there are systems where bytes whose values are greater than
+match isprint() in the "C" locale. The "C" locale should be the
+     default when a C program starts up. In most systems, only ASCII printing
+     characters match isprint(). This difference caused the output from pcretest
+     to vary, making some of the tests fail. I have changed pcretest so that:
+     (a) When it is outputting text in the compiled version of a pattern, bytes
+         other than 32-126 are always shown as hex escapes.
+     (b) When it is outputting text that is a matched part of a subject string,
+         it does the same, unless a different locale has been set for the match
+         (using the /L modifier). In this case, it uses isprint() to decide.
+. Fixed a major bug that caused incorrect computation of the amount of memory
+     required for a compiled pattern when options that changed within the
+     pattern affected the logic of the preliminary scan that determines the
+     length. The relevant options are -x, and -i in UTF-8 mode. The result was
+     that the computed length was too small. The symptoms of this bug were
+     either the PCRE error "internal error: code overflow" from pcre_compile(),
+     or a glibc crash with a message such as "pcretest: free(): invalid next
+     size (fast)". Examples of patterns that provoked this bug (shown in
+     pcretest format) are:
+       /(?-x: )/x
+       /(?x)(?-x: \s*#\s*)/
+       /((?i)[\x{c0}])/8
+       /(?i:[\x{c0}])/8
+     HOWEVER: Change 17 below makes this fix obsolete as the memory computation
+     is now done differently.
+. Applied patches from Google to: (a) add a QuoteMeta function to the C++
+     wrapper classes; (b) implement a new function in the C++ scanner that is
+     more efficient than the old way of doing things because it avoids levels of
+     recursion in the regex matching; (c) add a paragraph to the documentation
+     for the FullMatch() function.
+. The escape sequence \n was being treated as whatever was defined as
+     "newline". Not only was this contrary to the documentation, which states
+     that \n is character 10 (hex 0A), but it also went horribly wrong when
+     "newline" was defined as CRLF. This has been fixed.
+. In pcre_dfa_exec.c the value of an unsigned integer (the variable called c)
+     was being set to -1 for the "end of line" case (supposedly a value that no
+     character can have). Though this value is never used (the check for end of
+     line is "zero bytes in current character"), it caused compiler complaints.
+     I've changed it to 0xffffffff.
+. In pcre_version.c, the version string was being built by a sequence of
+     C macros that, in the event of PCRE_PRERELEASE being defined as an empty
+     string (as it is for production releases) called a macro with an empty
+     argument. The C standard says the result of this is undefined. The gcc
+     compiler treats it as an empty string (which was what was wanted) but it is
+     reported that Visual C gives an error. The source has been hacked around to
+     avoid this problem.
+. On the advice of a Windows user, included <io.h> and <fcntl.h> in Windows
+     builds of pcretest, and changed the call to _setmode() to use _O_BINARY
+     instead of 0x8000. Made all the #ifdefs test both _WIN32 and WIN32 (not all
+     of them did).
+. Originally, pcretest opened its input and output without "b"; then I was
+     told that "b" was needed in some environments, so it was added for release
+.0 to both the input and output. (It makes no difference on Unix-like
+     systems.) Later I was told that it is wrong for the input on Windows. I've
+     now abstracted the modes into two macros, to make it easier to fiddle with
+     them, and removed "b" from the input mode under Windows.
+. Added pkgconfig support for the C++ wrapper library, libpcrecpp.
+. Added -help and --help to pcretest as an official way of being reminded
+     of the options.
+. Removed some redundant semicolons after macro calls in pcrecpparg.h.in
+     and pcrecpp.cc because they annoy compilers at high warning levels.
+. A bit of tidying/refactoring in pcre_exec.c in the main bumpalong loop.
+. Fixed an occurrence of == in configure.ac that should have been = (shell
+     scripts are not C programs :-) and which was not noticed because it works
+     on Linux.
+. pcretest is supposed to handle any length of pattern and data line (as one
+     line or as a continued sequence of lines) by extending its input buffer if
+     necessary. This feature was broken for very long pattern lines, leading to
+     a string of junk being passed to pcre_compile() if the pattern was longer
+     than about 50K.
+. I have done a major re-factoring of the way pcre_compile() computes the
+     amount of memory needed for a compiled pattern. Previously, there was code
+     that made a preliminary scan of the pattern in order to do this. That was
+     OK when PCRE was new, but as the facilities have expanded, it has become
+     harder and harder to keep it in step with the real compile phase, and there
+     have been a number of bugs (see for example, 4 above). I have now found a
+     cunning way of running the real compile function in a "fake" mode that
+     enables it to compute how much memory it would need, while actually only
+     ever using a few hundred bytes of working memory and without too many
+     tests of the mode. This should make future maintenance and development
+     easier. A side effect of this work is that the limit of 200 on the nesting
+     depth of parentheses has been removed (though this was never a serious
+     limitation, I suspect). However, there is a downside: pcre_compile() now
+     runs more slowly than before (30% or more, depending on the pattern). I
+     hope this isn't a big issue. There is no effect on runtime performance.
+. Fixed a minor bug in pcretest: if a pattern line was not terminated by a
+     newline (only possible for the last line of a file) and it was a
+     pattern that set a locale (followed by /Lsomething), pcretest crashed.
+. Added additional timing features to pcretest. (1) The -tm option now times
+     matching only, not compiling. (2) Both -t and -tm can be followed, as a
+     separate command line item, by a number that specifies the number of
+     repeats to use when timing. The default is 50000; this gives better
+     precision, but takes uncomfortably long for very large patterns.
+. Extended pcre_study() to be more clever in cases where a branch of a
+     subpattern has no definite first character. For example, (a*|b*)[cd] would
+     previously give no result from pcre_study(). Now it recognizes that the
+     first character must be a, b, c, or d.
+. There was an incorrect error "recursive call could loop indefinitely" if
+     a subpattern (or the entire pattern) that was being tested for matching an
+     empty string contained only one non-empty item after a nested subpattern.
+     For example, the pattern (?>\x{100}*)\d(?R) provoked this error
+     incorrectly, because the \d was being skipped in the check.
+. The pcretest program now has a new pattern option /B and a command line
+     option -b, which is equivalent to adding /B to every pattern. This causes
+     it to show the compiled bytecode, without the additional information that
+     -d shows. The effect of -d is now the same as -b with -i (and similarly, /D
+     is the same as /B/I).
+. A new optimization is now able automatically to treat some sequences such
+     as a*b as a*+b. More specifically, if something simple (such as a character
+     or a simple class like \d) has an unlimited quantifier, and is followed by
+     something that cannot possibly match the quantified thing, the quantifier
+     is automatically "possessified".
+. A recursive reference to a subpattern whose number was greater than 39
+     went wrong under certain circumstances in UTF-8 mode. This bug could also
+     have affected the operation of pcre_study().
+. Realized that a little bit of performance could be had by replacing
+     (c & 0xc0) == 0xc0 with c >= 0xc0 when processing UTF-8 characters.
+. Timing data from pcretest is now shown to 4 decimal places instead of 3.
+. Possessive quantifiers such as a++ were previously implemented by turning
+     them into atomic groups such as ($>a+). Now they have their own opcodes,
+     which improves performance. This includes the automatically created ones
+     from 23 above.
+. A pattern such as (?=(\w+))\1: which simulates an atomic group using a
+     lookahead was broken if it was not anchored. PCRE was mistakenly expecting
+     the first matched character to be a colon. This applied both to named and
+     numbered groups.
+. The ucpinternal.h header file was missing its idempotency #ifdef.
+. I was sent a "project" file called libpcre.a.dev which I understand makes
+     building PCRE on Windows easier, so I have included it in the distribution.
+. There is now a check in pcretest against a ridiculously large number being
+     returned by pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec(). If this happens in a /g or /G
+     loop, the loop is abandoned.
+. Forward references to subpatterns in conditions such as (?(2)...) where
+     subpattern 2 is defined later cause pcre_compile() to search forwards in
+     the pattern for the relevant set of parentheses. This search went wrong
+     when there were unescaped parentheses in a character class, parentheses
+     escaped with \Q...\E, or parentheses in a #-comment in /x mode.
+. "Subroutine" calls and backreferences were previously restricted to
+     referencing subpatterns earlier in the regex. This restriction has now
+     been removed.
+. Added a number of extra features that are going to be in Perl 5.10. On the
+     whole, these are just syntactic alternatives for features that PCRE had
+     previously implemented using the Python syntax or my own invention. The
+     other formats are all retained for compatibility.
+     (a) Named groups can now be defined as (?<name>...) or (?'name'...) as well
+         as (?P<name>...). The new forms, as well as being in Perl 5.10, are
+         also .NET compatible.
+     (b) A recursion or subroutine call to a named group can now be defined as
+         (?&name) as well as (?P>name).
+     (c) A backreference to a named group can now be defined as \k<name> or
+         \k'name' as well as (?P=name). The new forms, as well as being in Perl
+.10, are also .NET compatible.
+     (d) A conditional reference to a named group can now use the syntax
+         (?(<name>) or (?('name') as well as (?(name).
+     (e) A "conditional group" of the form (?(DEFINE)...) can be used to define
+         groups (named and numbered) that are never evaluated inline, but can be
+         called as "subroutines" from elsewhere. In effect, the DEFINE condition
+         is always false. There may be only one alternative in such a group.
+     (f) A test for recursion can be given as (?(R1).. or (?(R&name)... as well
+         as the simple (?(R). The condition is true only if the most recent
+         recursion is that of the given number or name. It does not search out
+         through the entire recursion stack.
+     (g) The escape \gN or \g{N} has been added, where N is a positive or
+         negative number, specifying an absolute or relative reference.
+. Tidied to get rid of some further signed/unsigned compiler warnings and
+     some "unreachable code" warnings.
+. Updated the Unicode property tables to Unicode version 5.0.0. Amongst other
+     things, this adds five new scripts.
+. Perl ignores orphaned \E escapes completely. PCRE now does the same.
+     There were also incompatibilities regarding the handling of \Q..\E inside
+     character classes, for example with patterns like [\Qa\E-\Qz\E] where the
+     hyphen was adjacent to \Q or \E. I hope I've cleared all this up now.
+. Like Perl, PCRE detects when an indefinitely repeated parenthesized group
+     matches an empty string, and forcibly breaks the loop. There were bugs in
+     this code in non-simple cases. For a pattern such as  ^(a()*)*  matched
+     against  aaaa  the result was just "a" rather than "aaaa", for example. Two
+     separate and independent bugs (that affected different cases) have been
+     fixed.
+. Refactored the code to abolish the use of different opcodes for small
+     capturing bracket numbers. This is a tidy that I avoided doing when I
+     removed the limit on the number of capturing brackets for 3.5 back in 2001.
+     The new approach is not only tidier, it makes it possible to reduce the
+     memory needed to fix the previous bug (38).
+. Implemented PCRE_NEWLINE_ANY to recognize any of the Unicode newline
+     sequences (http://unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr18/) as "newline" when
+     processing dot, circumflex, or dollar metacharacters, or #-comments in /x
+     mode.
+. Add \R to match any Unicode newline sequence, as suggested in the Unicode
+     report.
+. Applied patch, originally from Ari Pollak, modified by Google, to allow
+     copy construction and assignment in the C++ wrapper.
+. Updated pcregrep to support "--newline=any". In the process, I fixed a
+     couple of bugs that could have given wrong results in the "--newline=crlf"
+     case.
+. Added a number of casts and did some reorganization of signed/unsigned int
+     variables following suggestions from Dair Grant. Also renamed the variable
+     "this" as "item" because it is a C++ keyword.
+. Arranged for dftables to add
+       #include "pcre_internal.h"
+     to pcre_chartables.c because without it, gcc 4.x may remove the array
+     definition from the final binary if PCRE is built into a static library and
+     dead code stripping is activated.
+. For an unanchored pattern, if a match attempt fails at the start of a
+     newline sequence, and the newline setting is CRLF or ANY, and the next two
+     characters are CRLF, advance by two characters instead of one.
+ Version 6.7 04-Jul-06
+ ---------------------
+. In order to handle tests when input lines are enormously long, pcretest has
+     been re-factored so that it automatically extends its buffers when
+     necessary. The code is crude, but this _is_ just a test program. The
+     default size has been increased from 32K to 50K.
+. The code in pcre_study() was using the value of the re argument before
+     testing it for NULL. (Of course, in any sensible call of the function, it
+     won't be NULL.)
+. The memmove() emulation function in pcre_internal.h, which is used on
+     systems that lack both memmove() and bcopy() - that is, hardly ever -
+     was missing a "static" storage class specifier.
+. When UTF-8 mode was not set, PCRE looped when compiling certain patterns
+     containing an extended class (one that cannot be represented by a bitmap
+     because it contains high-valued characters or Unicode property items, e.g.
+     [\pZ]). Almost always one would set UTF-8 mode when processing such a
+     pattern, but PCRE should not loop if you do not (it no longer does).
+     [Detail: two cases were found: (a) a repeated subpattern containing an
+     extended class; (b) a recursive reference to a subpattern that followed a
+     previous extended class. It wasn't skipping over the extended class
+     correctly when UTF-8 mode was not set.]
+. A negated single-character class was not being recognized as fixed-length
+     in lookbehind assertions such as (?<=[^f]), leading to an incorrect
+     compile error "lookbehind assertion is not fixed length".
+. The RunPerlTest auxiliary script was showing an unexpected difference
+     between PCRE and Perl for UTF-8 tests. It turns out that it is hard to
+     write a Perl script that can interpret lines of an input file either as
+     byte characters or as UTF-8, which is what "perltest" was being required to
+     do for the non-UTF-8 and UTF-8 tests, respectively. Essentially what you
+     can't do is switch easily at run time between having the "use utf8;" pragma
+     or not. In the end, I fudged it by using the RunPerlTest script to insert
+     "use utf8;" explicitly for the UTF-8 tests.
+. In multiline (/m) mode, PCRE was matching ^ after a terminating newline at
+     the end of the subject string, contrary to the documentation and to what
+     Perl does. This was true of both matching functions. Now it matches only at
+     the start of the subject and immediately after *internal* newlines.
+. A call of pcre_fullinfo() from pcretest to get the option bits was passing
+     a pointer to an int instead of a pointer to an unsigned long int. This
+     caused problems on 64-bit systems.
+. Applied a patch from the folks at Google to pcrecpp.cc, to fix "another
+     instance of the 'standard' template library not being so standard".
+. There was no check on the number of named subpatterns nor the maximum
+     length of a subpattern name. The product of these values is used to compute
+     the size of the memory block for a compiled pattern. By supplying a very
+     long subpattern name and a large number of named subpatterns, the size
+     computation could be caused to overflow. This is now prevented by limiting
+     the length of names to 32 characters, and the number of named subpatterns
+     to 10,000.
+. Subpatterns that are repeated with specific counts have to be replicated in
+     the compiled pattern. The size of memory for this was computed from the
+     length of the subpattern and the repeat count. The latter is limited to
+, but there was no limit on the former, meaning that integer overflow
+     could in principle occur. The compiled length of a repeated subpattern is
+     now limited to 30,000 bytes in order to prevent this.
+. Added the optional facility to have named substrings with the same name.
+. Added the ability to use a named substring as a condition, using the
+     Python syntax: (?(name)yes|no). This overloads (?(R)... and names that
+     are numbers (not recommended). Forward references are permitted.
+. Added forward references in named backreferences (if you see what I mean).
+. In UTF-8 mode, with the PCRE_DOTALL option set, a quantified dot in the
+     pattern could run off the end of the subject. For example, the pattern
+     "(?s)(.{1,5})"8 did this with the subject "ab".
+. If PCRE_DOTALL or PCRE_MULTILINE were set, pcre_dfa_exec() behaved as if
+     PCRE_CASELESS was set when matching characters that were quantified with ?
+     or *.
+. A character class other than a single negated character that had a minimum
+     but no maximum quantifier - for example [ab]{6,} - was not handled
+     correctly by pce_dfa_exec(). It would match only one character.
+. A valid (though odd) pattern that looked like a POSIX character
+     class but used an invalid character after [ (for example [[,abc,]]) caused
+     pcre_compile() to give the error "Failed: internal error: code overflow" or
+     in some cases to crash with a glibc free() error. This could even happen if
+     the pattern terminated after [[ but there just happened to be a sequence of
+     letters, a binary zero, and a closing ] in the memory that followed.
+. Perl's treatment of octal escapes in the range \400 to \777 has changed
+     over the years. Originally (before any Unicode support), just the bottom 8
+     bits were taken. Thus, for example, \500 really meant \100. Nowadays the
+     output from "man perlunicode" includes this:
+       The regular expression compiler produces polymorphic opcodes.  That
+       is, the pattern adapts to the data and automatically switches to
+       the Unicode character scheme when presented with Unicode data--or
+       instead uses a traditional byte scheme when presented with byte
+       data.
+     Sadly, a wide octal escape does not cause a switch, and in a string with
+     no other multibyte characters, these octal escapes are treated as before.
+     Thus, in Perl, the pattern  /\500/ actually matches \100 but the pattern
+     /\500|\x{1ff}/ matches \500 or \777 because the whole thing is treated as a
+     Unicode string.
+     I have not perpetrated such confusion in PCRE. Up till now, it took just
+     the bottom 8 bits, as in old Perl. I have now made octal escapes with
+     values greater than \377 illegal in non-UTF-8 mode. In UTF-8 mode they
+     translate to the appropriate multibyte character.
+. Applied some refactoring to reduce the number of warnings from Microsoft
+     and Borland compilers. This has included removing the fudge introduced
+     seven years ago for the OS/2 compiler (see 2.02/2 below) because it caused
+     a warning about an unused variable.
+. PCRE has not included VT (character 0x0b) in the set of whitespace
+     characters since release 4.0, because Perl (from release 5.004) does not.
+     [Or at least, is documented not to: some releases seem to be in conflict
+     with the documentation.] However, when a pattern was studied with
+     pcre_study() and all its branches started with \s, PCRE still included VT
+     as a possible starting character. Of course, this did no harm; it just
+     caused an unnecessary match attempt.
+. Removed a now-redundant internal flag bit that recorded the fact that case
+     dependency changed within the pattern. This was once needed for "required
+     byte" processing, but is no longer used. This recovers a now-scarce options
+     bit. Also moved the least significant internal flag bit to the most-
+     significant bit of the word, which was not previously used (hangover from
+     the days when it was an int rather than a uint) to free up another bit for
+     the future.
+. Added support for CRLF line endings as well as CR and LF. As well as the
+     default being selectable at build time, it can now be changed at runtime
+     via the PCRE_NEWLINE_xxx flags. There are now options for pcregrep to
+     specify that it is scanning data with non-default line endings.
+. Changed the definition of CXXLINK to make it agree with the definition of
+     LINK in the Makefile, by replacing LDFLAGS to CXXFLAGS.
+. Applied Ian Taylor's patches to avoid using another stack frame for tail
+     recursions. This makes a big different to stack usage for some patterns.
+. If a subpattern containing a named recursion or subroutine reference such
+     as (?P>B) was quantified, for example (xxx(?P>B)){3}, the calculation of
+     the space required for the compiled pattern went wrong and gave too small a
+     value. Depending on the environment, this could lead to "Failed: internal
+     error: code overflow at offset 49" or "glibc detected double free or
+     corruption" errors.
+. Applied patches from Google (a) to support the new newline modes and (b) to
+     advance over multibyte UTF-8 characters in GlobalReplace.
+. Change free() to pcre_free() in pcredemo.c. Apparently this makes a
+     difference for some implementation of PCRE in some Windows version.
+. Added some extra testing facilities to pcretest:
+     \q<number>   in a data line sets the "match limit" value
+     \Q<number>   in a data line sets the "match recursion limt" value
+     -S <number>  sets the stack size, where <number> is in megabytes
+     The -S option isn't available for Windows.
+ Version 6.6 06-Feb-06
+ ---------------------
+. Change 16(a) for 6.5 broke things, because PCRE_DATA_SCOPE was not defined
+     in pcreposix.h. I have copied the definition from pcre.h.
+. Change 25 for 6.5 broke compilation in a build directory out-of-tree
+     because pcre.h is no longer a built file.
+. Added Jeff Friedl's additional debugging patches to pcregrep. These are
+     not normally included in the compiled code.
+ Version 6.5 01-Feb-06
+ ---------------------
+. When using the partial match feature with pcre_dfa_exec(), it was not
+     anchoring the second and subsequent partial matches at the new starting
+     point. This could lead to incorrect results. For example, with the pattern
+     /1234/, partially matching against "123" and then "a4" gave a match.
+. Changes to pcregrep:
+     (a) All non-match returns from pcre_exec() were being treated as failures
+         to match the line. Now, unless the error is PCRE_ERROR_NOMATCH, an
+         error message is output. Some extra information is given for the
+         PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT and PCRE_ERROR_RECURSIONLIMIT errors, which are
+         probably the only errors that are likely to be caused by users (by
+         specifying a regex that has nested indefinite repeats, for instance).
+         If there are more than 20 of these errors, pcregrep is abandoned.
+     (b) A binary zero was treated as data while matching, but terminated the
+         output line if it was written out. This has been fixed: binary zeroes
+         are now no different to any other data bytes.
+     (c) Whichever of the LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE environment variables is set is
+         used to set a locale for matching. The --locale=xxxx long option has
+         been added (no short equivalent) to specify a locale explicitly on the
+         pcregrep command, overriding the environment variables.
+     (d) When -B was used with -n, some line numbers in the output were one less
+         than they should have been.
+     (e) Added the -o (--only-matching) option.
+     (f) If -A or -C was used with -c (count only), some lines of context were
+         accidentally printed for the final match.
+     (g) Added the -H (--with-filename) option.
+     (h) The combination of options -rh failed to suppress file names for files
+         that were found from directory arguments.
+     (i) Added the -D (--devices) and -d (--directories) options.
+     (j) Added the -F (--fixed-strings) option.
+     (k) Allow "-" to be used as a file name for -f as well as for a data file.
+     (l) Added the --colo(u)r option.
+     (m) Added Jeffrey Friedl's -S testing option, but within #ifdefs so that it
+         is not present by default.
+. A nasty bug was discovered in the handling of recursive patterns, that is,
+     items such as (?R) or (?1), when the recursion could match a number of
+     alternatives. If it matched one of the alternatives, but subsequently,
+     outside the recursion, there was a failure, the code tried to back up into
+     the recursion. However, because of the way PCRE is implemented, this is not
+     possible, and the result was an incorrect result from the match.
+     In order to prevent this happening, the specification of recursion has
+     been changed so that all such subpatterns are automatically treated as
+     atomic groups. Thus, for example, (?R) is treated as if it were (?>(?R)).
+. I had overlooked the fact that, in some locales, there are characters for
+     which isalpha() is true but neither isupper() nor islower() are true. In
+     the fr_FR locale, for instance, the \xAA and \xBA characters (ordmasculine
+     and ordfeminine) are like this. This affected the treatment of \w and \W
+     when they appeared in character classes, but not when they appeared outside
+     a character class. The bit map for "word" characters is now created
+     separately from the results of isalnum() instead of just taking it from the
+     upper, lower, and digit maps. (Plus the underscore character, of course.)
+. The above bug also affected the handling of POSIX character classes such as
+     [[:alpha:]] and [[:alnum:]]. These do not have their own bit maps in PCRE's
+     permanent tables. Instead, the bit maps for such a class were previously
+     created as the appropriate unions of the upper, lower, and digit bitmaps.
+     Now they are created by subtraction from the [[:word:]] class, which has
+     its own bitmap.
+. The [[:blank:]] character class matches horizontal, but not vertical space.
+     It is created by subtracting the vertical space characters (\x09, \x0a,
+     \x0b, \x0c) from the [[:space:]] bitmap. Previously, however, the
+     subtraction was done in the overall bitmap for a character class, meaning
+     that a class such as [\x0c[:blank:]] was incorrect because \x0c would not
+     be recognized. This bug has been fixed.
+. Patches from the folks at Google:
+       (a) pcrecpp.cc: "to handle a corner case that may or may not happen in
+       real life, but is still worth protecting against".
+       (b) pcrecpp.cc: "corrects a bug when negative radixes are used with
+       regular expressions".
+       (c) pcre_scanner.cc: avoid use of std::count() because not all systems
+       have it.
+       (d) Split off pcrecpparg.h from pcrecpp.h and had the former built by
+       "configure" and the latter not, in order to fix a problem somebody had
+       with compiling the Arg class on HP-UX.
+       (e) Improve the error-handling of the C++ wrapper a little bit.
+       (f) New tests for checking recursion limiting.
+. The pcre_memmove() function, which is used only if the environment does not
+     have a standard memmove() function (and is therefore rarely compiled),
+     contained two bugs: (a) use of int instead of size_t, and (b) it was not
+     returning a result (though PCRE never actually uses the result).
+. In the POSIX regexec() interface, if nmatch is specified as a ridiculously
+     large number - greater than INT_MAX/(3*sizeof(int)) - REG_ESPACE is
+     returned instead of calling malloc() with an overflowing number that would
+     most likely cause subsequent chaos.
+. The debugging option of pcretest was not showing the NO_AUTO_CAPTURE flag.
+. The POSIX flag REG_NOSUB is now supported. When a pattern that was compiled
+     with this option is matched, the nmatch and pmatch options of regexec() are
+     ignored.
+. Added REG_UTF8 to the POSIX interface. This is not defined by POSIX, but is
+     provided in case anyone wants to the the POSIX interface with UTF-8
+     strings.
+. Added CXXLDFLAGS to the Makefile parameters to provide settings only on the
+     C++ linking (needed for some HP-UX environments).
+. Avoid compiler warnings in get_ucpname() when compiled without UCP support
+     (unused parameter) and in the pcre_printint() function (omitted "default"
+     switch label when the default is to do nothing).
+. Added some code to make it possible, when PCRE is compiled as a C++
+     library, to replace subject pointers for pcre_exec() with a smart pointer
+     class, thus making it possible to process discontinuous strings.
+. The two macros PCRE_EXPORT and PCRE_DATA_SCOPE are confusing, and perform
+     much the same function. They were added by different people who were trying
+     to make PCRE easy to compile on non-Unix systems. It has been suggested
+     that PCRE_EXPORT be abolished now that there is more automatic apparatus
+     for compiling on Windows systems. I have therefore replaced it with
+     PCRE_DATA_SCOPE. This is set automatically for Windows; if not set it
+     defaults to "extern" for C or "extern C" for C++, which works fine on
+     Unix-like systems. It is now possible to override the value of PCRE_DATA_
+     SCOPE with something explicit in config.h. In addition:
+     (a) pcreposix.h still had just "extern" instead of either of these macros;
+         I have replaced it with PCRE_DATA_SCOPE.
+     (b) Functions such as _pcre_xclass(), which are internal to the library,
+         but external in the C sense, all had PCRE_EXPORT in their definitions.
+         This is apparently wrong for the Windows case, so I have removed it.
+         (It makes no difference on Unix-like systems.)
+. Added a new limit, MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION, which limits the depth of nesting
+     of recursive calls to match(). This is different to MATCH_LIMIT because
+     that limits the total number of calls to match(), not all of which increase
+     the depth of recursion. Limiting the recursion depth limits the amount of
+     stack (or heap if NO_RECURSE is set) that is used. The default can be set
+     when PCRE is compiled, and changed at run time. A patch from Google adds
+     this functionality to the C++ interface.
+. Changes to the handling of Unicode character properties:
+     (a) Updated the table to Unicode 4.1.0.
+     (b) Recognize characters that are not in the table as "Cn" (undefined).
+     (c) I revised the way the table is implemented to a much improved format
+         which includes recognition of ranges. It now supports the ranges that
+         are defined in UnicodeData.txt, and it also amalgamates other
+         characters into ranges. This has reduced the number of entries in the
+         table from around 16,000 to around 3,000, thus reducing its size
+         considerably. I realized I did not need to use a tree structure after
+         all - a binary chop search is just as efficient. Having reduced the
+         number of entries, I extended their size from 6 bytes to 8 bytes to
+         allow for more data.
+     (d) Added support for Unicode script names via properties such as \p{Han}.
+. In UTF-8 mode, a backslash followed by a non-Ascii character was not
+     matching that character.
+. When matching a repeated Unicode property with a minimum greater than zero,
+     (for example \pL{2,}), PCRE could look past the end of the subject if it
+     reached it while seeking the minimum number of characters. This could
+     happen only if some of the characters were more than one byte long, because
+     there is a check for at least the minimum number of bytes.
+. Refactored the implementation of \p and \P so as to be more general, to
+     allow for more different types of property in future. This has changed the
+     compiled form incompatibly. Anybody with saved compiled patterns that use
+     \p or \P will have to recompile them.
+. Added "Any" and "L&" to the supported property types.
+. Recognize \x{...} as a code point specifier, even when not in UTF-8 mode,
+     but give a compile time error if the value is greater than 0xff.
+. The man pages for pcrepartial, pcreprecompile, and pcre_compile2 were
+     accidentally not being installed or uninstalled.
+. The pcre.h file was built from pcre.h.in, but the only changes that were
+     made were to insert the current release number. This seemed silly, because
+     it made things harder for people building PCRE on systems that don't run
+     "configure". I have turned pcre.h into a distributed file, no longer built
+     by "configure", with the version identification directly included. There is
+     no longer a pcre.h.in file.
+     However, this change necessitated a change to the pcre-config script as
+     well. It is built from pcre-config.in, and one of the substitutions was the
+     release number. I have updated configure.ac so that ./configure now finds
+     the release number by grepping pcre.h.
+. Added the ability to run the tests under valgrind.
+ Version 6.4 05-Sep-05
+ ---------------------
+. Change 6.0/10/(l) to pcregrep introduced a bug that caused separator lines
+     "--" to be printed when multiple files were scanned, even when none of the
+     -A, -B, or -C options were used. This is not compatible with Gnu grep, so I
+     consider it to be a bug, and have restored the previous behaviour.
+. A couple of code tidies to get rid of compiler warnings.
+. The pcretest program used to cheat by referring to symbols in the library
+     whose names begin with _pcre_. These are internal symbols that are not
+     really supposed to be visible externally, and in some environments it is
+     possible to suppress them. The cheating is now confined to including
+     certain files from the library's source, which is a bit cleaner.
+. Renamed pcre.in as pcre.h.in to go with pcrecpp.h.in; it also makes the
+     file's purpose clearer.
+. Reorganized pcre_ucp_findchar().
+ Version 6.3 15-Aug-05
+ ---------------------
+. The file libpcre.pc.in did not have general read permission in the tarball.
+. There were some problems when building without C++ support:
+     (a) If C++ support was not built, "make install" and "make test" still
+         tried to test it.
+     (b) There were problems when the value of CXX was explicitly set. Some
+         changes have been made to try to fix these, and ...
+     (c) --disable-cpp can now be used to explicitly disable C++ support.
+     (d) The use of @CPP_OBJ@ directly caused a blank line preceded by a
+         backslash in a target when C++ was disabled. This confuses some
+         versions of "make", apparently. Using an intermediate variable solves
+         this. (Same for CPP_LOBJ.)
+. $(LINK_FOR_BUILD) now includes $(CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD) and $(LINK)
+     (non-Windows) now includes $(CFLAGS) because these flags are sometimes
+     necessary on certain architectures.
+. Added a setting of -export-symbols-regex to the link command to remove
+     those symbols that are exported in the C sense, but actually are local
+     within the library, and not documented. Their names all begin with
+     "_pcre_". This is not a perfect job, because (a) we have to except some
+     symbols that pcretest ("illegally") uses, and (b) the facility isn't always
+     available (and never for static libraries). I have made a note to try to
+     find a way round (a) in the future.
+ Version 6.2 01-Aug-05
+ ---------------------
+. There was no test for integer overflow of quantifier values. A construction
+     such as {1111111111111111} would give undefined results. What is worse, if
+     a minimum quantifier for a parenthesized subpattern overflowed and became
+     negative, the calculation of the memory size went wrong. This could have
+     led to memory overwriting.
+. Building PCRE using VPATH was broken. Hopefully it is now fixed.
+. Added "b" to the 2nd argument of fopen() in dftables.c, for non-Unix-like
+     operating environments where this matters.
+. Applied Giuseppe Maxia's patch to add additional features for controlling
+     PCRE options from within the C++ wrapper.
+. Named capturing subpatterns were not being correctly counted when a pattern
+     was compiled. This caused two problems: (a) If there were more than 100
+     such subpatterns, the calculation of the memory needed for the whole
+     compiled pattern went wrong, leading to an overflow error. (b) Numerical
+     back references of the form \12, where the number was greater than 9, were
+     not recognized as back references, even though there were sufficient
+     previous subpatterns.
+. Two minor patches to pcrecpp.cc in order to allow it to compile on older
+     versions of gcc, e.g. 2.95.4.
+ Version 6.1 21-Jun-05
+ ---------------------
+. There was one reference to the variable "posix" in pcretest.c that was not
+     surrounded by "#if !defined NOPOSIX".
+. Make it possible to compile pcretest without DFA support, UTF8 support, or
+     the cross-check on the old pcre_info() function, for the benefit of the
+     cut-down version of PCRE that is currently imported into Exim.
+. A (silly) pattern starting with (?i)(?-i) caused an internal space
+     allocation error. I've done the easy fix, which wastes 2 bytes for sensible
+     patterns that start (?i) but I don't think that matters. The use of (?i) is
+     just an example; this all applies to the other options as well.
+. Since libtool seems to echo the compile commands it is issuing, the output
+     from "make" can be reduced a bit by putting "@" in front of each libtool
+     compile command.
+. Patch from the folks at Google for configure.in to be a bit more thorough
+     in checking for a suitable C++ installation before trying to compile the
+     C++ stuff. This should fix a reported problem when a compiler was present,
+     but no suitable headers.
+. The man pages all had just "PCRE" as their title. I have changed them to
+     be the relevant file name. I have also arranged that these names are
+     retained in the file doc/pcre.txt, which is a concatenation in text format
+     of all the man pages except the little individual ones for each function.
+. The NON-UNIX-USE file had not been updated for the different set of source
+     files that come with release 6. I also added a few comments about the C++
+     wrapper.
+ Version 6.0 07-Jun-05
+ ---------------------
+. Some minor internal re-organization to help with my DFA experiments.
+. Some missing #ifdef SUPPORT_UCP conditionals in pcretest and printint that
+     didn't matter for the library itself when fully configured, but did matter
+     when compiling without UCP support, or within Exim, where the ucp files are
+     not imported.
+. Refactoring of the library code to split up the various functions into
+     different source modules. The addition of the new DFA matching code (see
+     below) to a single monolithic source would have made it really too
+     unwieldy, quite apart from causing all the code to be include in a
+     statically linked application, when only some functions are used. This is
+     relevant even without the DFA addition now that patterns can be compiled in
+     one application and matched in another.
+     The downside of splitting up is that there have to be some external
+     functions and data tables that are used internally in different modules of
+     the library but which are not part of the API. These have all had their
+     names changed to start with "_pcre_" so that they are unlikely to clash
+     with other external names.
+. Added an alternate matching function, pcre_dfa_exec(), which matches using
+     a different (DFA) algorithm. Although it is slower than the original
+     function, it does have some advantages for certain types of matching
+     problem.
+. Upgrades to pcretest in order to test the features of pcre_dfa_exec(),
+     including restarting after a partial match.
+. A patch for pcregrep that defines INVALID_FILE_ATTRIBUTES if it is not
+     defined when compiling for Windows was sent to me. I have put it into the
+     code, though I have no means of testing or verifying it.
+. Added the pcre_refcount() auxiliary function.
+. Added the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option. This constrains an unanchored pattern to
+     match before or at the first newline in the subject string. In pcretest,
+     the /f option on a pattern can be used to set this.
+. A repeated \w when used in UTF-8 mode with characters greater than 256
+     would behave wrongly. This has been present in PCRE since release 4.0.
+. A number of changes to the pcregrep command:
+     (a) Refactored how -x works; insert ^(...)$ instead of setting
+         PCRE_ANCHORED and checking the length, in preparation for adding
+         something similar for -w.
+     (b) Added the -w (match as a word) option.
+     (c) Refactored the way lines are read and buffered so as to have more
+         than one at a time available.
+     (d) Implemented a pcregrep test script.
+     (e) Added the -M (multiline match) option. This allows patterns to match
+         over several lines of the subject. The buffering ensures that at least
+K, or the rest of the document (whichever is the shorter) is available
+         for matching (and similarly the previous 8K for lookbehind assertions).
+     (f) Changed the --help output so that it now says
+           -w, --word-regex(p)
+         instead of two lines, one with "regex" and the other with "regexp"
+         because that confused at least one person since the short forms are the
+         same. (This required a bit of code, as the output is generated
+         automatically from a table. It wasn't just a text change.)
+     (g) -- can be used to terminate pcregrep options if the next thing isn't an
+         option but starts with a hyphen. Could be a pattern or a path name
+         starting with a hyphen, for instance.
+     (h) "-" can be given as a file name to represent stdin.
+     (i) When file names are being printed, "(standard input)" is used for
+         the standard input, for compatibility with GNU grep. Previously
+         "<stdin>" was used.
+     (j) The option --label=xxx can be used to supply a name to be used for
+         stdin when file names are being printed. There is no short form.
+     (k) Re-factored the options decoding logic because we are going to add
+         two more options that take data. Such options can now be given in four
+         different ways, e.g. "-fname", "-f name", "--file=name", "--file name".
+     (l) Added the -A, -B, and -C options for requesting that lines of context
+         around matches be printed.
+     (m) Added the -L option to print the names of files that do not contain
+         any matching lines, that is, the complement of -l.
+     (n) The return code is 2 if any file cannot be opened, but pcregrep does
+         continue to scan other files.
+     (o) The -s option was incorrectly implemented. For compatibility with other
+         greps, it now suppresses the error message for a non-existent or non-
+         accessible file (but not the return code). There is a new option called
+         -q that suppresses the output of matching lines, which was what -s was
+         previously doing.
+     (p) Added --include and --exclude options to specify files for inclusion
+         and exclusion when recursing.
+. The Makefile was not using the Autoconf-supported LDFLAGS macro properly.
+     Hopefully, it now does.
+. Missing cast in pcre_study().
+. Added an "uninstall" target to the makefile.
+. Replaced "extern" in the function prototypes in Makefile.in with
+     "PCRE_DATA_SCOPE", which defaults to 'extern' or 'extern "C"' in the Unix
+     world, but is set differently for Windows.
+. Added a second compiling function called pcre_compile2(). The only
+     difference is that it has an extra argument, which is a pointer to an
+     integer error code. When there is a compile-time failure, this is set
+     non-zero, in addition to the error test pointer being set to point to an
+     error message. The new argument may be NULL if no error number is required
+     (but then you may as well call pcre_compile(), which is now just a
+     wrapper). This facility is provided because some applications need a
+     numeric error indication, but it has also enabled me to tidy up the way
+     compile-time errors are handled in the POSIX wrapper.
+. Added VPATH=.libs to the makefile; this should help when building with one
+     prefix path and installing with another. (Or so I'm told by someone who
+     knows more about this stuff than I do.)
+. Added a new option, REG_DOTALL, to the POSIX function regcomp(). This
+     passes PCRE_DOTALL to the pcre_compile() function, making the "." character
+     match everything, including newlines. This is not POSIX-compatible, but
+     somebody wanted the feature. From pcretest it can be activated by using
+     both the P and the s flags.
+. AC_PROG_LIBTOOL appeared twice in Makefile.in. Removed one.
+. libpcre.pc was being incorrectly installed as executable.
+. A couple of places in pcretest check for end-of-line by looking for '\n';
+     it now also looks for '\r' so that it will work unmodified on Windows.
+. Added Google's contributed C++ wrapper to the distribution.
+. Added some untidy missing memory free() calls in pcretest, to keep
+     Electric Fence happy when testing.
+ Version 5.0 13-Sep-04
+ ---------------------
+. Internal change: literal characters are no longer packed up into items
+     containing multiple characters in a single byte-string. Each character
+     is now matched using a separate opcode. However, there may be more than one
+     byte in the character in UTF-8 mode.
+. The pcre_callout_block structure has two new fields: pattern_position and
+     next_item_length. These contain the offset in the pattern to the next match
+     item, and its length, respectively.
+. The PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT option for pcre_compile() requests the automatic
+     insertion of callouts before each pattern item. Added the /C option to
+     pcretest to make use of this.
+. On the advice of a Windows user, the lines
+       #if defined(_WIN32) || defined(WIN32)
+       _setmode( _fileno( stdout ), 0x8000 );
+       #endif  /* defined(_WIN32) || defined(WIN32) */
+     have been added to the source of pcretest. This apparently does useful
+     magic in relation to line terminators.
+. Changed "r" and "w" in the calls to fopen() in pcretest to "rb" and "wb"
+     for the benefit of those environments where the "b" makes a difference.
+. The icc compiler has the same options as gcc, but "configure" doesn't seem
+     to know about it. I have put a hack into configure.in that adds in code
+     to set GCC=yes if CC=icc. This seems to end up at a point in the
+     generated configure script that is early enough to affect the setting of
+     compiler options, which is what is needed, but I have no means of testing
+     whether it really works. (The user who reported this had patched the
+     generated configure script, which of course I cannot do.)
+     LATER: After change 22 below (new libtool files), the configure script
+     seems to know about icc (and also ecc). Therefore, I have commented out
+     this hack in configure.in.
+. Added support for pkg-config (2 patches were sent in).
+. Negated POSIX character classes that used a combination of internal tables
+     were completely broken. These were [[:^alpha:]], [[:^alnum:]], and
+     [[:^ascii]]. Typically, they would match almost any characters. The other
+     POSIX classes were not broken in this way.
+. Matching the pattern "\b.*?" against "ab cd", starting at offset 1, failed
+     to find the match, as PCRE was deluded into thinking that the match had to
+     start at the start point or following a newline. The same bug applied to
+     patterns with negative forward assertions or any backward assertions
+     preceding ".*" at the start, unless the pattern required a fixed first
+     character. This was a failing pattern: "(?!.bcd).*". The bug is now fixed.
+. In UTF-8 mode, when moving forwards in the subject after a failed match
+     starting at the last subject character, bytes beyond the end of the subject
+     string were read.
+. Renamed the variable "class" as "classbits" to make life easier for C++
+     users. (Previously there was a macro definition, but it apparently wasn't
+     enough.)
+. Added the new field "tables" to the extra data so that tables can be passed
+     in at exec time, or the internal tables can be re-selected. This allows
+     a compiled regex to be saved and re-used at a later time by a different
+     program that might have everything at different addresses.
+. Modified the pcre-config script so that, when run on Solaris, it shows a
+     -R library as well as a -L library.
+. The debugging options of pcretest (-d on the command line or D on a
+     pattern) showed incorrect output for anything following an extended class
+     that contained multibyte characters and which was followed by a quantifier.
+. Added optional support for general category Unicode character properties
+     via the \p, \P, and \X escapes. Unicode property support implies UTF-8
+     support. It adds about 90K to the size of the library. The meanings of the
+     inbuilt class escapes such as \d and \s have NOT been changed.
+. Updated pcredemo.c to include calls to free() to release the memory for the
+     compiled pattern.
+. The generated file chartables.c was being created in the source directory
+     instead of in the building directory. This caused the build to fail if the
+     source directory was different from the building directory, and was
+     read-only.
+. Added some sample Win commands from Mark Tetrode into the NON-UNIX-USE
+     file. No doubt somebody will tell me if they don't make sense... Also added
+     Dan Mooney's comments about building on OpenVMS.
+. Added support for partial matching via the PCRE_PARTIAL option for
+     pcre_exec() and the \P data escape in pcretest.
+. Extended pcretest with 3 new pattern features:
+     (i)   A pattern option of the form ">rest-of-line" causes pcretest to
+           write the compiled pattern to the file whose name is "rest-of-line".
+           This is a straight binary dump of the data, with the saved pointer to
+           the character tables forced to be NULL. The study data, if any, is
+           written too. After writing, pcretest reads a new pattern.
+     (ii)  If, instead of a pattern, "<rest-of-line" is given, pcretest reads a
+           compiled pattern from the given file. There must not be any
+           occurrences of "<" in the file name (pretty unlikely); if there are,
+           pcretest will instead treat the initial "<" as a pattern delimiter.
+           After reading in the pattern, pcretest goes on to read data lines as
+           usual.
+     (iii) The F pattern option causes pcretest to flip the bytes in the 32-bit
+           and 16-bit fields in a compiled pattern, to simulate a pattern that
+           was compiled on a host of opposite endianness.
+. The pcre-exec() function can now cope with patterns that were compiled on
+     hosts of opposite endianness, with this restriction:
+       As for any compiled expression that is saved and used later, the tables
+       pointer field cannot be preserved; the extra_data field in the arguments
+       to pcre_exec() should be used to pass in a tables address if a value
+       other than the default internal tables were used at compile time.
+. Calling pcre_exec() with a negative value of the "ovecsize" parameter is
+     now diagnosed as an error. Previously, most of the time, a negative number
+     would have been treated as zero, but if in addition "ovector" was passed as
+     NULL, a crash could occur.
+. Updated the files ltmain.sh, config.sub, config.guess, and aclocal.m4 with
+     new versions from the libtool 1.5 distribution (the last one is a copy of
+     a file called libtool.m4). This seems to have fixed the need to patch
+     "configure" to support Darwin 1.3 (which I used to do). However, I still
+     had to patch ltmain.sh to ensure that ${SED} is set (it isn't on my
+     workstation).
+. Changed the PCRE licence to be the more standard "BSD" licence.
+ Version 4.5 01-Dec-03
+ ---------------------
+. There has been some re-arrangement of the code for the match() function so
+     that it can be compiled in a version that does not call itself recursively.
+     Instead, it keeps those local variables that need separate instances for
+     each "recursion" in a frame on the heap, and gets/frees frames whenever it
+     needs to "recurse". Keeping track of where control must go is done by means
+     of setjmp/longjmp. The whole thing is implemented by a set of macros that
+     hide most of the details from the main code, and operates only if
+     NO_RECURSE is defined while compiling pcre.c. If PCRE is built using the
+     "configure" mechanism, "--disable-stack-for-recursion" turns on this way of
+     operating.
+     To make it easier for callers to provide specially tailored get/free
+     functions for this usage, two new functions, pcre_stack_malloc, and
+     pcre_stack_free, are used. They are always called in strict stacking order,
+     and the size of block requested is always the same.
+     The PCRE_CONFIG_STACKRECURSE info parameter can be used to find out whether
+     PCRE has been compiled to use the stack or the heap for recursion. The
+     -C option of pcretest uses this to show which version is compiled.
+     A new data escape \S, is added to pcretest; it causes the amounts of store
+     obtained and freed by both kinds of malloc/free at match time to be added
+     to the output.
+. Changed the locale test to use "fr_FR" instead of "fr" because that's
+     what's available on my current Linux desktop machine.
+. When matching a UTF-8 string, the test for a valid string at the start has
+     been extended. If start_offset is not zero, PCRE now checks that it points
+     to a byte that is the start of a UTF-8 character. If not, it returns
+     PCRE_ERROR_BADUTF8_OFFSET (-11). Note: the whole string is still checked;
+     this is necessary because there may be backward assertions in the pattern.
+     When matching the same subject several times, it may save resources to use
+     PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK on all but the first call if the string is long.
+. The code for checking the validity of UTF-8 strings has been tightened so
+     that it rejects (a) strings containing 0xfe or 0xff bytes and (b) strings
+     containing "overlong sequences".
+. Fixed a bug (appearing twice) that I could not find any way of exploiting!
+     I had written "if ((digitab[*p++] && chtab_digit) == 0)" where the "&&"
+     should have been "&", but it just so happened that all the cases this let
+     through by mistake were picked up later in the function.
+. I had used a variable called "isblank" - this is a C99 function, causing
+     some compilers to warn. To avoid this, I renamed it (as "blankclass").
+. Cosmetic: (a) only output another newline at the end of pcretest if it is
+     prompting; (b) run "./pcretest /dev/null" at the start of the test script
+     so the version is shown; (c) stop "make test" echoing "./RunTest".
+. Added patches from David Burgess to enable PCRE to run on EBCDIC systems.
+. The prototype for memmove() for systems that don't have it was using
+     size_t, but the inclusion of the header that defines size_t was later. I've
+     moved the #includes for the C headers earlier to avoid this.
+. Added some adjustments to the code to make it easier to compiler on certain
+     special systems:
+       (a) Some "const" qualifiers were missing.
+       (b) Added the macro EXPORT before all exported functions; by default this
+           is defined to be empty.
+       (c) Changed the dftables auxiliary program (that builds chartables.c) so
+           that it reads its output file name as an argument instead of writing
+           to the standard output and assuming this can be redirected.
+. In UTF-8 mode, if a recursive reference (e.g. (?1)) followed a character
+     class containing characters with values greater than 255, PCRE compilation
+     went into a loop.
+. A recursive reference to a subpattern that was within another subpattern
+     that had a minimum quantifier of zero caused PCRE to crash. For example,
+     (x(y(?2))z)? provoked this bug with a subject that got as far as the
+     recursion. If the recursively-called subpattern itself had a zero repeat,
+     that was OK.
+. In pcretest, the buffer for reading a data line was set at 30K, but the
+     buffer into which it was copied (for escape processing) was still set at
+, so long lines caused crashes.
+. A pattern such as /[ab]{1,3}+/ failed to compile, giving the error
+     "internal error: code overflow...". This applied to any character class
+     that was followed by a possessive quantifier.
+. Modified the Makefile to add libpcre.la as a prerequisite for
+     libpcreposix.la because I was told this is needed for a parallel build to
+     work.
+. If a pattern that contained .* following optional items at the start was
+     studied, the wrong optimizing data was generated, leading to matching
+     errors. For example, studying /[ab]*.*c/ concluded, erroneously, that any
+     matching string must start with a or b or c. The correct conclusion for
+     this pattern is that a match can start with any character.
+ Version 4.4 13-Aug-03
+ ---------------------
+. In UTF-8 mode, a character class containing characters with values between
+and 255 was not handled correctly if the compiled pattern was studied.
+     In fixing this, I have also improved the studying algorithm for such
+     classes (slightly).
+. Three internal functions had redundant arguments passed to them. Removal
+     might give a very teeny performance improvement.
+. Documentation bug: the value of the capture_top field in a callout is *one
+     more than* the number of the hightest numbered captured substring.
+. The Makefile linked pcretest and pcregrep with -lpcre, which could result
+     in incorrectly linking with a previously installed version. They now link
+     explicitly with libpcre.la.
+. configure.in no longer needs to recognize Cygwin specially.
+. A problem in pcre.in for Windows platforms is fixed.
+. If a pattern was successfully studied, and the -d (or /D) flag was given to
+     pcretest, it used to include the size of the study block as part of its
+     output. Unfortunately, the structure contains a field that has a different
+     size on different hardware architectures. This meant that the tests that
+     showed this size failed. As the block is currently always of a fixed size,
+     this information isn't actually particularly useful in pcretest output, so
+     I have just removed it.
+. Three pre-processor statements accidentally did not start in column 1.
+     Sadly, there are *still* compilers around that complain, even though
+     standard C has not required this for well over a decade. Sigh.
+. In pcretest, the code for checking callouts passed small integers in the
+     callout_data field, which is a void * field. However, some picky compilers
+     complained about the casts involved for this on 64-bit systems. Now
+     pcretest passes the address of the small integer instead, which should get
+     rid of the warnings.
+. By default, when in UTF-8 mode, PCRE now checks for valid UTF-8 strings at
+     both compile and run time, and gives an error if an invalid UTF-8 sequence
+     is found. There is a option for disabling this check in cases where the
+     string is known to be correct and/or the maximum performance is wanted.
+. In response to a bug report, I changed one line in Makefile.in from
+         -Wl,--out-implib,.libs/lib@WIN_PREFIX@pcreposix.dll.a \
+     to
+         -Wl,--out-implib,.libs/@WIN_PREFIX@libpcreposix.dll.a \
+     to look similar to other lines, but I have no way of telling whether this
+     is the right thing to do, as I do not use Windows. No doubt I'll get told
+     if it's wrong...
+ Version 4.3 21-May-03
+ ---------------------
+. Two instances of @WIN_PREFIX@ omitted from the Windows targets in the
+    Makefile.
+. Some refactoring to improve the quality of the code:
+    (i)   The utf8_table... variables are now declared "const".
+    (ii)  The code for \cx, which used the "case flipping" table to upper case
+          lower case letters, now just substracts 32. This is ASCII-specific,
+          but the whole concept of \cx is ASCII-specific, so it seems
+          reasonable.
+    (iii) PCRE was using its character types table to recognize decimal and
+          hexadecimal digits in the pattern. This is silly, because it handles
+          only 0-9, a-f, and A-F, but the character types table is locale-
+          specific, which means strange things might happen. A private
+          table is now used for this - though it costs 256 bytes, a table is
+          much faster than multiple explicit tests. Of course, the standard
+          character types table is still used for matching digits in subject
+          strings against \d.
+    (iv)  Strictly, the identifier ESC_t is reserved by POSIX (all identifiers
+          ending in _t are). So I've renamed it as ESC_tee.
+. The first argument for regexec() in the POSIX wrapper should have been
+    defined as "const".
+. Changed pcretest to use malloc() for its buffers so that they can be
+    Electric Fenced for debugging.
+. There were several places in the code where, in UTF-8 mode, PCRE would try
+    to read one or more bytes before the start of the subject string. Often this
+    had no effect on PCRE's behaviour, but in some circumstances it could
+    provoke a segmentation fault.
+. A lookbehind at the start of a pattern in UTF-8 mode could also cause PCRE
+    to try to read one or more bytes before the start of the subject string.
+. A lookbehind in a pattern matched in non-UTF-8 mode on a PCRE compiled with
+    UTF-8 support could misbehave in various ways if the subject string
+    contained bytes with the 0x80 bit set and the 0x40 bit unset in a lookbehind
+    area. (PCRE was not checking for the UTF-8 mode flag, and trying to move
+    back over UTF-8 characters.)
+ Version 4.2 14-Apr-03
+ ---------------------
+. Typo "#if SUPPORT_UTF8" instead of "#ifdef SUPPORT_UTF8" fixed.
+. Changes to the building process, supplied by Ronald Landheer-Cieslak
+      [ON_WINDOWS]: new variable, "#" on non-Windows platforms
+      [NOT_ON_WINDOWS]: new variable, "#" on Windows platforms
+      [WIN_PREFIX]: new variable, "cyg" for Cygwin
+      * Makefile.in: use autoconf substitution for OBJEXT, EXEEXT, BUILD_OBJEXT
+        and BUILD_EXEEXT
+      Note: automatic setting of the BUILD variables is not yet working
+      set CPPFLAGS and BUILD_CPPFLAGS (but don't use yet) - should be used at
+        compile-time but not at link-time
+      [LINK]: use for linking executables only
+      make different versions for Windows and non-Windows
+      [LINKLIB]: new variable, copy of UNIX-style LINK, used for linking
+        libraries
+      [LINK_FOR_BUILD]: new variable
+      [OBJEXT]: use throughout
+      [EXEEXT]: use throughout
+      <winshared>: new target
+      <wininstall>: new target
+      <dftables.o>: use native compiler
+      <dftables>: use native linker
+      <install>: handle Windows platform correctly
+      <clean>: ditto
+      <check>: ditto
+      copy DLL to top builddir before testing
+    As part of these changes, -no-undefined was removed again. This was reported
+    to give trouble on HP-UX 11.0, so getting rid of it seems like a good idea
+    in any case.
+. Some tidies to get rid of compiler warnings:
+    . In the match_data structure, match_limit was an unsigned long int, whereas
+      match_call_count was an int. I've made them both unsigned long ints.
+    . In pcretest the fact that a const uschar * doesn't automatically cast to
+      a void * provoked a warning.
+    . Turning on some more compiler warnings threw up some "shadow" variables
+      and a few more missing casts.
+. If PCRE was complied with UTF-8 support, but called without the PCRE_UTF8
+    option, a class that contained a single character with a value between 128
+    and 255 (e.g. /[\xFF]/) caused PCRE to crash.
+. If PCRE was compiled with UTF-8 support, but called without the PCRE_UTF8
+    option, a class that contained several characters, but with at least one
+    whose value was between 128 and 255 caused PCRE to crash.
+ Version 4.1 12-Mar-03
+ ---------------------
+. Compiling with gcc -pedantic found a couple of places where casts were
+ needed, and a string in dftables.c that was longer than standard compilers are
+ required to support.
+. Compiling with Sun's compiler found a few more places where the code could
+ be tidied up in order to avoid warnings.
+. The variables for cross-compiling were called HOST_CC and HOST_CFLAGS; the
+ first of these names is deprecated in the latest Autoconf in favour of the name
+ CC_FOR_BUILD, because "host" is typically used to mean the system on which the
+ compiled code will be run. I can't find a reference for HOST_CFLAGS, but by
+ analogy I have changed it to CFLAGS_FOR_BUILD.
+. Added -no-undefined to the linking command in the Makefile, because this is
+ apparently helpful for Windows. To make it work, also added "-L. -lpcre" to the
+ linking step for the pcreposix library.
+. PCRE was failing to diagnose the case of two named groups with the same
+ name.
+. A problem with one of PCRE's optimizations was discovered. PCRE remembers a
+ literal character that is needed in the subject for a match, and scans along to
+ ensure that it is present before embarking on the full matching process. This
+ saves time in cases of nested unlimited repeats that are never going to match.
+ Problem: the scan can take a lot of time if the subject is very long (e.g.
+ megabytes), thus penalizing straightforward matches. It is now done only if the
+ amount of subject to be scanned is less than 1000 bytes.
+. A lesser problem with the same optimization is that it was recording the
+ first character of an anchored pattern as "needed", thus provoking a search
+ right along the subject, even when the first match of the pattern was going to
+ fail. The "needed" character is now not set for anchored patterns, unless it
+ follows something in the pattern that is of non-fixed length. Thus, it still
+ fulfils its original purpose of finding quick non-matches in cases of nested
+ unlimited repeats, but isn't used for simple anchored patterns such as /^abc/.
+ Version 4.0 17-Feb-03
+ ---------------------
+. If a comment in an extended regex that started immediately after a meta-item
+ extended to the end of string, PCRE compiled incorrect data. This could lead to
+ all kinds of weird effects. Example: /#/ was bad; /()#/ was bad; /a#/ was not.
+. Moved to autoconf 2.53 and libtool 1.4.2.
+. Perl 5.8 no longer needs "use utf8" for doing UTF-8 things. Consequently,
+ the special perltest8 script is no longer needed - all the tests can be run
+ from a single perltest script.
+. From 5.004, Perl has not included the VT character (0x0b) in the set defined
+ by \s. It has now been removed in PCRE. This means it isn't recognized as
+ whitespace in /x regexes too, which is the same as Perl. Note that the POSIX
+ class [:space:] *does* include VT, thereby creating a mess.
+. Added the class [:blank:] (a GNU extension from Perl 5.8) to match only
+ space and tab.
+. Perl 5.005 was a long time ago. It's time to amalgamate the tests that use
+ its new features into the main test script, reducing the number of scripts.
+. Perl 5.8 has changed the meaning of patterns like /a(?i)b/. Earlier versions
+ were backward compatible, and made the (?i) apply to the whole pattern, as if
+ /i were given. Now it behaves more logically, and applies the option setting
+ only to what follows. PCRE has been changed to follow suit. However, if it
+ finds options settings right at the start of the pattern, it extracts them into
+ the global options, as before. Thus, they show up in the info data.
+. Added support for the \Q...\E escape sequence. Characters in between are
+ treated as literals. This is slightly different from Perl in that $ and @ are
+ also handled as literals inside the quotes. In Perl, they will cause variable
+ interpolation. Note the following examples:
+     Pattern            PCRE matches      Perl matches
+     \Qabc$xyz\E        abc$xyz           abc followed by the contents of $xyz
+     \Qabc\$xyz\E       abc\$xyz          abc\$xyz
+     \Qabc\E\$\Qxyz\E   abc$xyz           abc$xyz
+ For compatibility with Perl, \Q...\E sequences are recognized inside character
+ classes as well as outside them.
+. Re-organized 3 code statements in pcretest to avoid "overflow in
+ floating-point constant arithmetic" warnings from a Microsoft compiler. Added a
+ (size_t) cast to one statement in pcretest and one in pcreposix to avoid
+ signed/unsigned warnings.
+. SunOS4 doesn't have strtoul(). This was used only for unpicking the -o
+ option for pcretest, so I've replaced it by a simple function that does just
+ that job.
+. pcregrep was ending with code 0 instead of 2 for the commands "pcregrep" or
+ "pcregrep -".
+. Added "possessive quantifiers" ?+, *+, ++, and {,}+ which come from Sun's
+ Java package. This provides some syntactic sugar for simple cases of what my
+ documentation calls "once-only subpatterns". A pattern such as x*+ is the same
+ as (?>x*). In other words, if what is inside (?>...) is just a single repeated
+ item, you can use this simplified notation. Note that only makes sense with
+ greedy quantifiers. Consequently, the use of the possessive quantifier forces
+ greediness, whatever the setting of the PCRE_UNGREEDY option.
+. A change of greediness default within a pattern was not taking effect at
+ the current level for patterns like /(b+(?U)a+)/. It did apply to parenthesized
+ subpatterns that followed. Patterns like /b+(?U)a+/ worked because the option
+ was abstracted outside.
+. PCRE now supports the \G assertion. It is true when the current matching
+ position is at the start point of the match. This differs from \A when the
+ starting offset is non-zero. Used with the /g option of pcretest (or similar
+ code), it works in the same way as it does for Perl's /g option. If all
+ alternatives of a regex begin with \G, the expression is anchored to the start
+ match position, and the "anchored" flag is set in the compiled expression.
+. Some bugs concerning the handling of certain option changes within patterns
+ have been fixed. These applied to options other than (?ims). For example,
+ "a(?x: b c )d" did not match "XabcdY" but did match "Xa b c dY". It should have
+ been the other way round. Some of this was related to change 7 above.
+. PCRE now gives errors for /[.x.]/ and /[=x=]/ as unsupported POSIX
+ features, as Perl does. Previously, PCRE gave the warnings only for /[[.x.]]/
+ and /[[=x=]]/. PCRE now also gives an error for /[:name:]/ because it supports
+ POSIX classes only within a class (e.g. /[[:alpha:]]/).
+. Added support for Perl's \C escape. This matches one byte, even in UTF8
+ mode. Unlike ".", it always matches newline, whatever the setting of
+ PCRE_DOTALL. However, PCRE does not permit \C to appear in lookbehind
+ assertions. Perl allows it, but it doesn't (in general) work because it can't
+ calculate the length of the lookbehind. At least, that's the case for Perl
+.8.0 - I've been told they are going to document that it doesn't work in
+ future.
+. Added an error diagnosis for escapes that PCRE does not support: these are
+ \L, \l, \N, \P, \p, \U, \u, and \X.
+. Although correctly diagnosing a missing ']' in a character class, PCRE was
+ reading past the end of the pattern in cases such as /[abcd/.
+. PCRE was getting more memory than necessary for patterns with classes that
+ contained both POSIX named classes and other characters, e.g. /[[:space:]abc/.
+. Added some code, conditional on #ifdef VPCOMPAT, to make life easier for
+ compiling PCRE for use with Virtual Pascal.
+. Small fix to the Makefile to make it work properly if the build is done
+ outside the source tree.
+. Added a new extension: a condition to go with recursion. If a conditional
+ subpattern starts with (?(R) the "true" branch is used if recursion has
+ happened, whereas the "false" branch is used only at the top level.
+. When there was a very long string of literal characters (over 255 bytes
+ without UTF support, over 250 bytes with UTF support), the computation of how
+ much memory was required could be incorrect, leading to segfaults or other
+ strange effects.
+. PCRE was incorrectly assuming anchoring (either to start of subject or to
+ start of line for a non-DOTALL pattern) when a pattern started with (.*) and
+ there was a subsequent back reference to those brackets. This meant that, for
+ example, /(.*)\d+\1/ failed to match "abc123bc". Unfortunately, it isn't
+ possible to check for precisely this case. All we can do is abandon the
+ optimization if .* occurs inside capturing brackets when there are any back
+ references whatsoever. (See below for a better fix that came later.)
+. The handling of the optimization for finding the first character of a
+ non-anchored pattern, and for finding a character that is required later in the
+ match were failing in some cases. This didn't break the matching; it just
+ failed to optimize when it could. The way this is done has been re-implemented.
+. Fixed typo in error message for invalid (?R item (it said "(?p").
+. Added a new feature that provides some of the functionality that Perl
+ provides with (?{...}). The facility is termed a "callout". The way it is done
+ in PCRE is for the caller to provide an optional function, by setting
+ pcre_callout to its entry point. Like pcre_malloc and pcre_free, this is a
+ global variable. By default it is unset, which disables all calling out. To get
+ the function called, the regex must include (?C) at appropriate points. This
+ is, in fact, equivalent to (?C0), and any number <= 255 may be given with (?C).
+ This provides a means of identifying different callout points. When PCRE
+ reaches such a point in the regex, if pcre_callout has been set, the external
+ function is called. It is provided with data in a structure called
+ pcre_callout_block, which is defined in pcre.h. If the function returns 0,
+ matching continues; if it returns a non-zero value, the match at the current
+ point fails. However, backtracking will occur if possible. [This was changed
+ later and other features added - see item 49 below.]
+. pcretest is upgraded to test the callout functionality. It provides a
+ callout function that displays information. By default, it shows the start of
+ the match and the current position in the text. There are some new data escapes
+ to vary what happens:
+     \C+         in addition, show current contents of captured substrings
+     \C-         do not supply a callout function
+     \C!n        return 1 when callout number n is reached
+     \C!n!m      return 1 when callout number n is reached for the mth time
+. If pcregrep was called with the -l option and just a single file name, it
+ output "<stdin>" if a match was found, instead of the file name.
+. Improve the efficiency of the POSIX API to PCRE. If the number of capturing
+ slots is less than POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD, use a block on the stack to pass to
+ pcre_exec(). This saves a malloc/free per call. The default value of
+ POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD is 10; it can be changed by --with-posix-malloc-threshold
+ when configuring.
+. The default maximum size of a compiled pattern is 64K. There have been a
+ few cases of people hitting this limit. The code now uses macros to handle the
+ storing of links as offsets within the compiled pattern. It defaults to 2-byte
+ links, but this can be changed to 3 or 4 bytes by --with-link-size when
+ configuring. Tests 2 and 5 work only with 2-byte links because they output
+ debugging information about compiled patterns.
+. Internal code re-arrangements:
+ (a) Moved the debugging function for printing out a compiled regex into
+     its own source file (printint.c) and used #