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revision 327 by ph10, Sat Mar 8 19:38:30 2008 UTC revision 343 by ph10, Mon Apr 21 16:30:37 2008 UTC
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11  2.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to restore ABI compatibility with  2.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to restore ABI compatibility with
12      pre-7.6 versions, which defined a global no_arg variable instead of putting      pre-7.6 versions, which defined a global no_arg variable instead of putting
13      it in the RE class.      it in the RE class. (See also #8 below.)
14    
15  3.  Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno  3.  Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno
16      Lopes.      Lopes.
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36    
37  7.  Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in  7.  Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in
38      pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c.      pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c.
39    
40    8.  Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to fix a problem in OS X that was
41        caused by fix #2  above. (Subsequently also a second patch to fix the
42        first patch. And a third patch - this was a messy problem.)
43    
44    9.  Applied Craig's patch to remove the use of push_back().
45    
46    10. Applied Alan Lehotsky's patch to add REG_STARTEND support to the POSIX
47        matching function regexec().
48    
49    11. Added support for the Oniguruma syntax \g<name>, \g<n>, \g'name', \g'n',
50        which, however, unlike Perl's \g{...}, are subroutine calls, not back
51        references. PCRE supports relative numbers with this syntax (I don't think
52        Oniguruma does).
53    
54    12. Previously, a group with a zero repeat such as (...){0} was completely
55        omitted from the compiled regex. However, this means that if the group
56        was called as a subroutine from elsewhere in the pattern, things went wrong
57        (an internal error was given). Such groups are now left in the compiled
58        pattern, with a new opcode that causes them to be skipped at execution
59        time.
60    
61    13. Added the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option. This makes the following changes
62        to the way PCRE behaves:
63    
64        (a) A lone ] character is dis-allowed (Perl treats it as data).
65    
66        (b) A back reference to an unmatched subpattern matches an empty string
67            (Perl fails the current match path).
68    
69        (c) A data ] in a character class must be notated as \] because if the
70            first data character in a class is ], it defines an empty class. (In
71            Perl it is not possible to have an empty class.) The empty class []
72            never matches; it forces failure and is equivalent to (*FAIL) or (?!).
73            The negative empty class [^] matches any one character, independently
74            of the DOTALL setting.
75    
76    14. A pattern such as /(?2)[]a()b](abc)/ which had a forward reference to a
77        non-existent subpattern following a character class starting with ']' and
78        containing () gave an internal compiling error instead of "reference to
79        non-existent subpattern". Fortunately, when the pattern did exist, the
80        compiled code was correct. (When scanning forwards to check for the
81        existencd of the subpattern, it was treating the data ']' as terminating
82        the class, so got the count wrong. When actually compiling, the reference
83        was subsequently set up correctly.)
84    
85    15. The "always fail" assertion (?!) is optimzed to (*FAIL) by pcre_compile;
86        it was being rejected as not supported by pcre_dfa_exec(), even though
87        other assertions are supported. I have made pcre_dfa_exec() support
88        (*FAIL).
89    
90    16. The implementation of 13c above involved the invention of a new opcode,
91        OP_ALLANY, which is like OP_ANY but doesn't check the /s flag. Since /s
92        cannot be changed at match time, I realized I could make a small
93        improvement to matching performance by compiling OP_ALLANY instead of
94        OP_ANY for "." when DOTALL was set, and then removing the runtime tests
95        on the OP_ANY path.
96    
97    17. Compiling pcretest on Windows with readline support failed without the
98        following two fixes: (1) Make the unistd.h include conditional on
99        HAVE_UNISTD_H; (2) #define isatty and fileno as _isatty and _fileno.
100    
101    
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