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1  ChangeLog for PCRE  ChangeLog for PCRE
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3    
4  Version 7.3 17-Aug-07  Version 7.5 12-Nov-07
5    ---------------------
6    
7    1.  Applied a patch from Craig: "This patch makes it possible to 'ignore'
8        values in parens when parsing an RE using the C++ wrapper."
9    
10    2.  Negative specials like \S did not work in character classes in UTF-8 mode.
11        Characters greater than 255 were excluded from the class instead of being
12        included.
13    
14    3.  The same bug as (2) above applied to negated POSIX classes such as
15        [:^space:].
16    
17    4.  PCRECPP_STATIC was referenced in pcrecpp_internal.h, but nowhere was it
18        defined or documented. It seems to have been a typo for PCRE_STATIC, so
19        I have changed it.
20    
21    5.  The construct (?&) was not diagnosed as a syntax error (it referenced the
22        first named subpattern) and a construct such as (?&a) would reference the
23        first named subpattern whose name started with "a" (in other words, the
24        length check was missing).
25    
26    6.  The erroneous patterns (?+-a) and (?-+a) give different error messages;
27        this is right because (?- can be followed by option settings as well as by
28        digits. I have, however, made the messages clearer.
29    
30    
31    Version 7.4 21-Sep-07
32    ---------------------
33    
34    1.  Change 7.3/28 was implemented for classes by looking at the bitmap. This
35        means that a class such as [\s] counted as "explicit reference to CR or
36        LF". That isn't really right - the whole point of the change was to try to
37        help when there was an actual mention of one of the two characters. So now
38        the change happens only if \r or \n (or a literal CR or LF) character is
39        encountered.
40    
41    2.  The 32-bit options word was also used for 6 internal flags, but the numbers
42        of both had grown to the point where there were only 3 bits left.
43        Fortunately, there was spare space in the data structure, and so I have
44        moved the internal flags into a new 16-bit field to free up more option
45        bits.
46    
47    3.  The appearance of (?J) at the start of a pattern set the DUPNAMES option,
48        but did not set the internal JCHANGED flag - either of these is enough to
49        control the way the "get" function works - but the PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED
50        facility is supposed to tell if (?J) was ever used, so now (?J) at the
51        start sets both bits.
52    
53    4.  Added options (at build time, compile time, exec time) to change \R from
54        matching any Unicode line ending sequence to just matching CR, LF, or CRLF.
55    
56    5.  doc/pcresyntax.html was missing from the distribution.
57    
58    6.  Put back the definition of PCRE_ERROR_NULLWSLIMIT, for backward
59        compatibility, even though it is no longer used.
60    
61    7.  Added macro for snprintf to pcrecpp_unittest.cc and also for strtoll and
62        strtoull to pcrecpp.cc to select the available functions in WIN32 when the
63        windows.h file is present (where different names are used). [This was
64        reversed later after testing - see 16 below.]
65    
66    8.  Changed all #include <config.h> to #include "config.h". There were also
67        some further <pcre.h> cases that I changed to "pcre.h".
68    
69    9.  When pcregrep was used with the --colour option, it missed the line ending
70        sequence off the lines that it output.
71    
72    10. It was pointed out to me that arrays of string pointers cause lots of
73        relocations when a shared library is dynamically loaded. A technique of
74        using a single long string with a table of offsets can drastically reduce
75        these. I have refactored PCRE in four places to do this. The result is
76        dramatic:
77    
78          Originally:                          290
79          After changing UCP table:            187
80          After changing error message table:   43
81          After changing table of "verbs"       36
82          After changing table of Posix names   22
83    
84        Thanks to the folks working on Gregex for glib for this insight.
85    
86    11. --disable-stack-for-recursion caused compiling to fail unless -enable-
87        unicode-properties was also set.
88    
89    12. Updated the tests so that they work when \R is defaulted to ANYCRLF.
90    
91    13. Added checks for ANY and ANYCRLF to pcrecpp.cc where it previously
92        checked only for CRLF.
93    
94    14. Added casts to pcretest.c to avoid compiler warnings.
95    
96    15. Added Craig's patch to various pcrecpp modules to avoid compiler warnings.
97    
98    16. Added Craig's patch to remove the WINDOWS_H tests, that were not working,
99        and instead check for _strtoi64 explicitly, and avoid the use of snprintf()
100        entirely. This removes changes made in 7 above.
101    
102    17. The CMake files have been updated, and there is now more information about
103        building with CMake in the NON-UNIX-USE document.
104    
105    
106    Version 7.3 28-Aug-07
107  ---------------------  ---------------------
108    
109   1. In the rejigging of the build system that eventually resulted in 7.1, the   1. In the rejigging of the build system that eventually resulted in 7.1, the
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247    
248  25. Using pcregrep in multiline, inverted mode (-Mv) caused it to loop.  25. Using pcregrep in multiline, inverted mode (-Mv) caused it to loop.
249    
250    26. Patterns such as [\P{Yi}A] which include \p or \P and just one other
251        character were causing crashes (broken optimization).
252    
253    27. Patterns such as (\P{Yi}*\277)* (group with possible zero repeat containing
254        \p or \P) caused a compile-time loop.
255    
256    28. More problems have arisen in unanchored patterns when CRLF is a valid line
257        break. For example, the unstudied pattern [\r\n]A does not match the string
258        "\r\nA" because change 7.0/46 below moves the current point on by two
259        characters after failing to match at the start. However, the pattern \nA
260        *does* match, because it doesn't start till \n, and if [\r\n]A is studied,
261        the same is true. There doesn't seem any very clean way out of this, but
262        what I have chosen to do makes the common cases work: PCRE now takes note
263        of whether there can be an explicit match for \r or \n anywhere in the
264        pattern, and if so, 7.0/46 no longer applies. As part of this change,
265        there's a new PCRE_INFO_HASCRORLF option for finding out whether a compiled
266        pattern has explicit CR or LF references.
267    
268    29. Added (*CR) etc for changing newline setting at start of pattern.
269    
270    
271  Version 7.2 19-Jun-07  Version 7.2 19-Jun-07
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