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1  ChangeLog for PCRE  ChangeLog for PCRE
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3    
4  Version 8.21  Version 8.21 05-Dec-2011
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6    
7  1.  Updating the JIT compiler.  1.  Updating the JIT compiler.
8    
9  2.  JIT compiler now supports OP_NCREF, OP_RREF and OP_NRREF. New test cases  2.  JIT compiler now supports OP_NCREF, OP_RREF and OP_NRREF. New test cases
10      are added as well.      are added as well.
11    
12    3.  Fix cache-flush issue on PowerPC (It is still an experimental JIT port).
13        PCRE_EXTRA_TABLES is not suported by JIT, and should be checked before
14        calling _pcre_jit_exec. Some extra comments are added.
15    
16    4.  (*MARK) settings inside atomic groups that do not contain any capturing
17        parentheses, for example, (?>a(*:m)), were not being passed out. This bug
18        was introduced by change 18 for 8.20.
19    
20    5.  Supporting of \x, \U and \u in JavaScript compatibility mode based on the
21        ECMA-262 standard.
22    
23    6.  Lookbehinds such as (?<=a{2}b) that contained a fixed repetition were
24        erroneously being rejected as "not fixed length" if PCRE_CASELESS was set.
25        This bug was probably introduced by change 9 of 8.13.
26    
27    7.  While fixing 6 above, I noticed that a number of other items were being
28        incorrectly rejected as "not fixed length". This arose partly because newer
29        opcodes had not been added to the fixed-length checking code. I have (a)
30        corrected the bug and added tests for these items, and (b) arranged for an
31        error to occur if an unknown opcode is encountered while checking for fixed
32        length instead of just assuming "not fixed length". The items that were
33        rejected were: (*ACCEPT), (*COMMIT), (*FAIL), (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP),
34        (*THEN), \h, \H, \v, \V, and single character negative classes with fixed
35        repetitions, e.g. [^a]{3}, with and without PCRE_CASELESS.
36    
37    8.  A possessively repeated conditional subpattern such as (?(?=c)c|d)++ was
38        being incorrectly compiled and would have given unpredicatble results.
39    
40    9.  A possessively repeated subpattern with minimum repeat count greater than
41        one behaved incorrectly. For example, (A){2,}+ behaved as if it was
42        (A)(A)++ which meant that, after a subsequent mismatch, backtracking into
43        the first (A) could occur when it should not.
44    
45    10. Add a cast and remove a redundant test from the code.
46    
47    11. JIT should use pcre_malloc/pcre_free for allocation.
48    
49    12. Updated pcre-config so that it no longer shows -L/usr/lib, which seems
50        best practice nowadays, and helps with cross-compiling. (If the exec_prefix
51        is anything other than /usr, -L is still shown).
52    
53    13. In non-UTF-8 mode, \C is now supported in lookbehinds and DFA matching.
54    
55    14. Perl does not support \N without a following name in a [] class; PCRE now
56        also gives an error.
57    
58    15. If a forward reference was repeated with an upper limit of around 2000,
59        it caused the error "internal error: overran compiling workspace". The
60        maximum number of forward references (including repeats) was limited by the
61        internal workspace, and dependent on the LINK_SIZE. The code has been
62        rewritten so that the workspace expands (via pcre_malloc) if necessary, and
63        the default depends on LINK_SIZE. There is a new upper limit (for safety)
64        of around 200,000 forward references. While doing this, I also speeded up
65        the filling in of repeated forward references.
66    
67    16. A repeated forward reference in a pattern such as (a)(?2){2}(.) was
68        incorrectly expecting the subject to contain another "a" after the start.
69    
70    17. When (*SKIP:name) is activated without a corresponding (*MARK:name) earlier
71        in the match, the SKIP should be ignored. This was not happening; instead
72        the SKIP was being treated as NOMATCH. For patterns such as
73        /A(*MARK:A)A+(*SKIP:B)Z|AAC/ this meant that the AAC branch was never
74        tested.
75    
76    18. The behaviour of (*MARK), (*PRUNE), and (*THEN) has been reworked and is
77        now much more compatible with Perl, in particular in cases where the result
78        is a non-match for a non-anchored pattern. For example, if
79        /b(*:m)f|a(*:n)w/ is matched against "abc", the non-match returns the name
80        "m", where previously it did not return a name. A side effect of this
81        change is that for partial matches, the last encountered mark name is
82        returned, as for non matches. A number of tests that were previously not
83        Perl-compatible have been moved into the Perl-compatible test files. The
84        refactoring has had the pleasing side effect of removing one argument from
85        the match() function, thus reducing its stack requirements.
86    
87    19. If the /S+ option was used in pcretest to study a pattern using JIT,
88        subsequent uses of /S (without +) incorrectly behaved like /S+.
89    
90    21. Retrieve executable code size support for the JIT compiler and fixing
91        some warnings.
92    
93    22. A caseless match of a UTF-8 character whose other case uses fewer bytes did
94        not work when the shorter character appeared right at the end of the
95        subject string.
96    
97    23. Added some (int) casts to non-JIT modules to reduce warnings on 64-bit
98        systems.
99    
100    24. Added PCRE_INFO_JITSIZE to pass on the value from (21) above, and also
101        output it when the /M option is used in pcretest.
102    
103    25. The CheckMan script was not being included in the distribution. Also, added
104        an explicit "perl" to run Perl scripts from the PrepareRelease script
105        because this is reportedly needed in Windows.
106    
107    26. If study data was being save in a file and studying had not found a set of
108        "starts with" bytes for the pattern, the data written to the file (though
109        never used) was taken from uninitialized memory and so caused valgrind to
110        complain.
111    
112    
113  Version 8.20 21-Oct-2011  Version 8.20 21-Oct-2011
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