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1  ChangeLog for PCRE  ChangeLog for PCRE
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4  Version 8.01 06-Jan-10  Version 8.01 01-Jan-10
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7  1.  If a pattern contained a conditional subpattern with only one branch (in  1.  If a pattern contained a conditional subpattern with only one branch (in
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113      equivalent. It's not enough to call AC_CHECK_FUNCS: hpux has a strtoll, for      equivalent. It's not enough to call AC_CHECK_FUNCS: hpux has a strtoll, for
114      instance, but it only takes 2 args instead of 3!"      instance, but it only takes 2 args instead of 3!"
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116    18. A subtle bug concerned with back references has been fixed by a change of
117        specification, with a corresponding code fix. A pattern such as
118        ^(xa|=?\1a)+$ which contains a back reference inside the group to which it
119        refers, was giving matches when it shouldn't. For example, xa=xaaa would
120        match that pattern. Interestingly, Perl (at least up to 5.11.3) has the
121        same bug. Such groups have to be quantified to be useful, or contained
122        inside another quantified group. (If there's no repetition, the reference
123        can never match.) The problem arises because, having left the group and
124        moved on to the rest of the pattern, a later failure that backtracks into
125        the group uses the captured value from the final iteration of the group
126        rather than the correct earlier one. I have fixed this in PCRE by forcing
127        any group that contains a reference to itself to be an atomic group; that
128        is, there cannot be any backtracking into it once it has completed. This is
129        similar to recursive and subroutine calls.
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132  Version 8.00 19-Oct-09  Version 8.00 19-Oct-09
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