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1  ChangeLog for PCRE  ChangeLog for PCRE
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3    
4  Version 7.1 12-Mar-07  Version 7.3 09-Aug-07
5    ---------------------
6    
7     1. In the rejigging of the build system that eventually resulted in 7.1, the
8        line "#include <pcre.h>" was included in pcre_internal.h. The use of angle
9        brackets there is not right, since it causes compilers to look for an
10        installed pcre.h, not the version that is in the source that is being
11        compiled (which of course may be different). I have changed it back to:
12    
13          #include "pcre.h"
14    
15        I have a vague recollection that the change was concerned with compiling in
16        different directories, but in the new build system, that is taken care of
17        by the VPATH setting the Makefile.
18    
19     2. The pattern .*$ when run in not-DOTALL UTF-8 mode with newline=any failed
20        when the subject happened to end in the byte 0x85 (e.g. if the last
21        character was \x{1ec5}). *Character* 0x85 is one of the "any" newline
22        characters but of course it shouldn't be taken as a newline when it is part
23        of another character. The bug was that, for an unlimited repeat of . in
24        not-DOTALL UTF-8 mode, PCRE was advancing by bytes rather than by
25        characters when looking for a newline.
26    
27     3. A small performance improvement in the DOTALL UTF-8 mode .* case.
28    
29     4. Debugging: adjusted the names of opcodes for different kinds of parentheses
30        in debug output.
31    
32     5. Arrange to use "%I64d" instead of "%lld" and "%I64u" instead of "%llu" for
33        long printing in the pcrecpp unittest when running under MinGW.
34    
35     6. ESC_K was left out of the EBCDIC table.
36    
37     7. Change 7.0/38 introduced a new limit on the number of nested non-capturing
38        parentheses; I made it 1000, which seemed large enough. Unfortunately, the
39        limit also applies to "virtual nesting" when a pattern is recursive, and in
40        this case 1000 isn't so big. I have been able to remove this limit at the
41        expense of backing off one optimization in certain circumstances. Normally,
42        when pcre_exec() would call its internal match() function recursively and
43        immediately return the result unconditionally, it uses a "tail recursion"
44        feature to save stack. However, when a subpattern that can match an empty
45        string has an unlimited repetition quantifier, it no longer makes this
46        optimization. That gives it a stack frame in which to save the data for
47        checking that an empty string has been matched. Previously this was taken
48        from the 1000-entry workspace that had been reserved. So now there is no
49        explicit limit, but more stack is used.
50    
51     8. Applied Daniel's patches to solve problems with the import/export magic
52        syntax that is required for Windows, and which was going wrong for the
53        pcreposix and pcrecpp parts of the library. These were overlooked when this
54        problem was solved for the main library.
55    
56     9. There were some crude static tests to avoid integer overflow when computing
57        the size of patterns that contain repeated groups with explicit upper
58        limits. As the maximum quantifier is 65535, the maximum group length was
59        set at 30,000 so that the product of these two numbers did not overflow a
60        32-bit integer. However, it turns out that people want to use groups that
61        are longer than 30,000 bytes (though not repeat them that many times).
62        Change 7.0/17 (the refactoring of the way the pattern size is computed) has
63        made it possible to implement the integer overflow checks in a much more
64        dynamic way, which I have now done. The artificial limitation on group
65        length has been removed - we now have only the limit on the total length of
66        the compiled pattern, which depends on the LINK_SIZE setting.
67    
68    10. Fixed a bug in the documentation for get/copy named substring when
69        duplicate names are permitted. If none of the named substrings are set, the
70        functions return PCRE_ERROR_NOSUBSTRING (7); the doc said they returned an
71        empty string.
72    
73    11. Because Perl interprets \Q...\E at a high level, and ignores orphan \E
74        instances, patterns such as [\Q\E] or [\E] or even [^\E] cause an error,
75        because the ] is interpreted as the first data character and the
76        terminating ] is not found. PCRE has been made compatible with Perl in this
77        regard. Previously, it interpreted [\Q\E] as an empty class, and [\E] could
78        cause memory overwriting.
79    
80    10. Like Perl, PCRE automatically breaks an unlimited repeat after an empty
81        string has been matched (to stop an infinite loop). It was not recognizing
82        a conditional subpattern that could match an empty string if that
83        subpattern was within another subpattern. For example, it looped when
84        trying to match  (((?(1)X|))*)  but it was OK with  ((?(1)X|)*)  where the
85        condition was not nested. This bug has been fixed.
86    
87    12. A pattern like \X?\d or \P{L}?\d in non-UTF-8 mode could cause a backtrack
88        past the start of the subject in the presence of bytes with the top bit
89        set, for example "\x8aBCD".
90    
91    13. Added Perl 5.10 experimental backtracking controls (*FAIL), (*F), (*PRUNE),
92        (*SKIP), (*THEN), (*COMMIT), and (*ACCEPT).
93    
94    14. Optimized (?!) to (*FAIL).
95    
96    15. Updated the test for a valid UTF-8 string to conform to the later RFC 3629.
97        This restricts code points to be within the range 0 to 0x10FFFF, excluding
98        the "low surrogate" sequence 0xD800 to 0xDFFF. Previously, PCRE allowed the
99        full range 0 to 0x7FFFFFFF, as defined by RFC 2279. Internally, it still
100        does: it's just the validity check that is more restrictive.
101    
102    16. Inserted checks for integer overflows during escape sequence (backslash)
103        processing, and also fixed erroneous offset values for syntax errors during
104        backslash processing.
105    
106    
107    Version 7.2 19-Jun-07
108    ---------------------
109    
110     1. If the fr_FR locale cannot be found for test 3, try the "french" locale,
111        which is apparently normally available under Windows.
112    
113     2. Re-jig the pcregrep tests with different newline settings in an attempt
114        to make them independent of the local environment's newline setting.
115    
116     3. Add code to configure.ac to remove -g from the CFLAGS default settings.
117    
118     4. Some of the "internals" tests were previously cut out when the link size
119        was not 2, because the output contained actual offsets. The recent new
120        "Z" feature of pcretest means that these can be cut out, making the tests
121        usable with all link sizes.
122    
123     5. Implemented Stan Switzer's goto replacement for longjmp() when not using
124        stack recursion. This gives a massive performance boost under BSD, but just
125        a small improvement under Linux. However, it saves one field in the frame
126        in all cases.
127    
128     6. Added more features from the forthcoming Perl 5.10:
129    
130        (a) (?-n) (where n is a string of digits) is a relative subroutine or
131            recursion call. It refers to the nth most recently opened parentheses.
132    
133        (b) (?+n) is also a relative subroutine call; it refers to the nth next
134            to be opened parentheses.
135    
136        (c) Conditions that refer to capturing parentheses can be specified
137            relatively, for example, (?(-2)... or (?(+3)...
138    
139        (d) \K resets the start of the current match so that everything before
140            is not part of it.
141    
142        (e) \k{name} is synonymous with \k<name> and \k'name' (.NET compatible).
143    
144        (f) \g{name} is another synonym - part of Perl 5.10's unification of
145            reference syntax.
146    
147        (g) (?| introduces a group in which the numbering of parentheses in each
148            alternative starts with the same number.
149    
150        (h) \h, \H, \v, and \V match horizontal and vertical whitespace.
151    
152     7. Added two new calls to pcre_fullinfo(): PCRE_INFO_OKPARTIAL and
153        PCRE_INFO_JCHANGED.
154    
155     8. A pattern such as  (.*(.)?)*  caused pcre_exec() to fail by either not
156        terminating or by crashing. Diagnosed by Viktor Griph; it was in the code
157        for detecting groups that can match an empty string.
158    
159     9. A pattern with a very large number of alternatives (more than several
160        hundred) was running out of internal workspace during the pre-compile
161        phase, where pcre_compile() figures out how much memory will be needed. A
162        bit of new cunning has reduced the workspace needed for groups with
163        alternatives. The 1000-alternative test pattern now uses 12 bytes of
164        workspace instead of running out of the 4096 that are available.
165    
166    10. Inserted some missing (unsigned int) casts to get rid of compiler warnings.
167    
168    11. Applied patch from Google to remove an optimization that didn't quite work.
169        The report of the bug said:
170    
171          pcrecpp::RE("a*").FullMatch("aaa") matches, while
172          pcrecpp::RE("a*?").FullMatch("aaa") does not, and
173          pcrecpp::RE("a*?\\z").FullMatch("aaa") does again.
174    
175    12. If \p or \P was used in non-UTF-8 mode on a character greater than 127
176        it matched the wrong number of bytes.
177    
178    
179    Version 7.1 24-Apr-07
180  ---------------------  ---------------------
181    
182   1. Applied Bob Rossi and Daniel G's patches to convert the build system to one   1. Applied Bob Rossi and Daniel G's patches to convert the build system to one
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324    
325  23. Added some casts to kill warnings from HP-UX ia64 compiler.  23. Added some casts to kill warnings from HP-UX ia64 compiler.
326    
327    24. Added a man page for pcre-config.
328    
329    
330  Version 7.0 19-Dec-06  Version 7.0 19-Dec-06
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