--- code/trunk/ChangeLog 2008/04/12 15:59:03 336 +++ code/trunk/ChangeLog 2010/06/16 10:51:15 545 @@ -1,68 +1,765 @@ ChangeLog for PCRE ------------------ -Version 7.7 05-Mar-08 +Version 8.10 16-Jun-2010 +------------------------ + +1. Added support for (*MARK:ARG) and for ARG additions to PRUNE, SKIP, and + THEN. + +2. (*ACCEPT) was not working when inside an atomic group. + +3. 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. + +4. 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. + +5. Added support for \N, which always matches any character other than + newline. (It is the same as "." when PCRE_DOTALL is not set.) + +6. 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. + +7. Minor change to pcretest.c to avoid a compiler warning. + +8. 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). + +9. 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. + +10. Added --line-buffered to pcregrep. + +11. 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 + 127 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). + +12. 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). + +13. pcre_study() now recognizes \h, \v, and \R when constructing a bit map of + possible starting bytes for non-anchored patterns. + +14. 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. + +15. 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.) + +16. Added a lot of (int) casts to avoid compiler warnings in systems where + size_t is 64-bit (#991). + +17. Added a check for running out of memory when PCRE is compiled with + --disable-stack-for-recursion (#990). + +18. 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. + +19. 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.) + +20. 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. + +21. A pattern such as (?&t)(?#()(?(DEFINE)(?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 +------------------------ + +1. The Unicode data tables have been updated to Unicode 5.2.0. + +2. Added the option --libs-cpp to pcre-config, but only when C++ support is + configured. + +3. Updated the licensing terms in the pcregexp.pas file, as agreed with the + original author of that file, following a query about its status. + +4. 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. + +5. A pattern such as (?&t)*+(?(DEFINE)(?.)) 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". + +6. 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. + +7. 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). + +8. Following on from 7, I added a similar kludge to check the length of the + eint vector in pcreposix.c. + +9. 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. + +10. \K gave a compile-time error if it appeared in a lookbehind assersion. + +11. \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. + +12. 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. + +13. A pattern such as (?P(?P0)|(?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. + +14. 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. + +15. Fix typo in configure.ac: "srtoq" should be "strtoq". + + +Version 8.01 19-Jan-2010 +------------------------ + +1. 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. + +2. 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.) + +3. 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. + +4. 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. + +5. 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. + +6. 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.) + +7. 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. + +8. 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. + +9. Added two casts to avoid signed/unsigned warnings from VS Studio Express + 2005 (difference between two addresses compared to an unsigned value). + +10. 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. + +11. 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. + +12. 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. + +13. 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. + +14. 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. + +15. 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. + +16. GNU libtool is named differently on some systems. The autogen.sh script now + tries several variants such as glibtoolize (MacOSX) and libtoolize1x + (FreeBSD). + +17. 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!" + +18. 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 +---------------------- + +1. 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. + +2. 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. + +3. 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. + +4. 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. + +5. 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. + +6. No libpcreposix.pc file was created for pkg-config; there was just + libpcre.pc and libpcrecpp.pc. The omission has been rectified. + +7. 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. + +8. 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. + +9. 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. + +10. 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. + +11. 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). + +12. 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. + +13. 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. + +14. 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. + +15. 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. + +16. 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. + +17. 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. + +18. 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. + +19. 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])(?))/. + [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.] + +20. 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. + +21. 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. + +22. 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. + +23. 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. + +24. 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. + +25. 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(). + +26. 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(). + +27. 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.) + +28. 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 +--------------------- + +1. 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. + +2. 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. + +3. The pcre_config() function was treating the PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT and + PCRE_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION values as ints, when they should be long ints. + +4. 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. + +5. 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. + +6. 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. + +7. 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. + +8. 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. + +9. 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(). + +10. The PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY option was not working when pcre_dfa_exec() was + used for matching. + +11. Unicode property support in character classes was not working for + characters (bytes) greater than 127 when not in UTF-8 mode. + +12. Added the -M command line option to pcretest. + +14. Added the non-standard REG_NOTEMPTY option to the POSIX interface. + +15. Added the PCRE_NO_START_OPTIMIZE match-time option. + +16. Added comments and documentation about mis-use of no_arg in the C++ + wrapper. + +17. 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. + +18. 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. + +19. 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. + +20. If a pattern that was compiled with callouts was matched using pcre_dfa_ + exec(), but without supplying a callout function, matching went wrong. + +21. 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). + +22. 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. + +23. 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. + +24. 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. + +25. 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. + +26. 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). + +27. 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. + +28. Added support for (*UTF8) at the start of a pattern. + +29. Arrange for flags added by the "release type" setting in CMake to be shown + in the configuration summary. + + +Version 7.8 05-Sep-08 +--------------------- + +1. 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). + +2. Updated the Unicode datatables to Unicode 5.1.0. This adds yet more + scripts. + +3. 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. + +4. 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. + +5. 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. + +6. Minor bugfix in pcrecpp.cc (change "" == ... to NULL == ...). + +7. Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two + pointers, in case they are 64-bit values. + +8. Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to + test 2 if it fails. + +9. 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. + +10. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from + the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file. + +11. 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. + +12. 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. + +13. 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. + +14. 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. + +15. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example, + /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc". + +16. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h. + +17. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from + pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts. + +18. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings. + +19. 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 --------------------- 1. 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 + 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. - + 2. 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.) - -3. Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno - Lopes. - + +3. Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno + Lopes. + 4. 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. - + 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. - + 5. Added the --include_dir and --exclude_dir patterns to pcregrep, and used - --exclude_dir in the tests to avoid scanning .svn directories. - + --exclude_dir in the tests to avoid scanning .svn directories. + 6. Applied Craig's patch to the QuoteMeta function so that it escapes the - NUL character as backslash + 0 rather than backslash + NUL, because PCRE + NUL character as backslash + 0 rather than backslash + NUL, because PCRE doesn't support NULs in patterns. - -7. Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in - pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c. - + +7. Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in + pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c. + 8. 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.) - -9. Applied Craig's patch to remove the use of push_back(). + first patch. And a third patch - this was a messy problem.) + +9. Applied Craig's patch to remove the use of push_back(). 10. Applied Alan Lehotsky's patch to add REG_STARTEND support to the POSIX matching function regexec(). - -11. Added support for the Oniguruma syntax \g, \g, \g'name', \g'n', - which, however, unlike Perl's \g{...}, are subroutine calls, not back + +11. Added support for the Oniguruma syntax \g, \g, \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). - -12. Previously, a group with a zero repeat such as (...){0} was completely + +12. 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 + (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. - -13. Added the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option. This currently does two things: + +13. 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 + + (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. + +14. 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.) + +15. 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). + +16. 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. + +17. 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. + +18. 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 Bergström. + +19. 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 ---------------------