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<ul>
<li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">PCRE JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a>
<li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">AVAILABILITY OF JIT SUPPORT</a>
<li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">SIMPLE USE OF JIT</a>
<li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS AND PATTERN ITEMS</a>
<li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">RETURN VALUES FROM JIT EXECUTION</a>
<li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">SAVING AND RESTORING COMPILED PATTERNS</a>
<li><a name="TOC7" href="#SEC7">CONTROLLING THE JIT STACK</a>
<li><a name="TOC8" href="#SEC8">EXAMPLE CODE</a>
<li><a name="TOC9" href="#SEC9">SEE ALSO</a>
<li><a name="TOC10" href="#SEC10">AUTHOR</a>
<li><a name="TOC11" href="#SEC11">REVISION</a>
</ul>
<br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">PCRE JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a><br>
<P>
Just-in-time compiling is a heavyweight optimization that can greatly speed up
pattern matching. However, it comes at the cost of extra processing before the
match is performed. Therefore, it is of most benefit when the same pattern is
going to be matched many times. This does not necessarily mean many calls of
\fPpcre_exec()\fP; if the pattern is not anchored, matching attempts may take
place many times at various positions in the subject, even for a single call to
<b>pcre_exec()</b>. If the subject string is very long, it may still pay to use
JIT for one-off matches.
</P>
<P>
JIT support applies only to the traditional matching function,
<b>pcre_exec()</b>. It does not apply when <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b> is being used.
The code for this support was written by Zoltan Herczeg.
</P>
<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">AVAILABILITY OF JIT SUPPORT</a><br>
<P>
JIT support is an optional feature of PCRE. The "configure" option --enable-jit
(or equivalent CMake option) must be set when PCRE is built if you want to use
JIT. The support is limited to the following hardware platforms:
<pre>
  ARM v5, v7, and Thumb2
  Intel x86 32-bit and 64-bit
  MIPS 32-bit
  Power PC 32-bit and 64-bit
</pre>
If --enable-jit is set on an unsupported platform, compilation fails.
</P>
<P>
A program can tell if JIT support is available by calling <b>pcre_config()</b>
with the PCRE_CONFIG_JIT option. The result is 1 when JIT is available, and 0
otherwise. However, a simple program does not need to check this in order to
use JIT. The API is implemented in a way that falls back to the ordinary PCRE
code if JIT is not available.
</P>
<br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">SIMPLE USE OF JIT</a><br>
<P>
You have to do two things to make use of the JIT support in the simplest way:
<pre>
  (1) Call <b>pcre_study()</b> with the PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE option for
      each compiled pattern, and pass the resulting <b>pcre_extra</b> block to
      <b>pcre_exec()</b>.

  (2) Use <b>pcre_free_study()</b> to free the <b>pcre_extra</b> block when it is
      no longer needed instead of just freeing it yourself. This
      ensures that any JIT data is also freed.
</pre>
In some circumstances you may need to call additional functions. These are
described in the section entitled
<a href="#stackcontrol">"Controlling the JIT stack"</a>
below.
</P>
<P>
If JIT support is not available, PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE is ignored, and no JIT
data is set up. Otherwise, the compiled pattern is passed to the JIT compiler,
which turns it into machine code that executes much faster than the normal
interpretive code. When <b>pcre_exec()</b> is passed a <b>pcre_extra</b> block
containing a pointer to JIT code, it obeys that instead of the normal code. The
result is identical, but the code runs much faster.
</P>
<P>
There are some <b>pcre_exec()</b> options that are not supported for JIT
execution. There are also some pattern items that JIT cannot handle. Details
are given below. In both cases, execution automatically falls back to the
interpretive code.
</P>
<P>
If the JIT compiler finds an unsupported item, no JIT data is generated. You
can find out if JIT execution is available after studying a pattern by calling
<b>pcre_fullinfo()</b> with the PCRE_INFO_JIT option. A result of 1 means that
JIT compilation was successful. A result of 0 means that JIT support is not
available, or the pattern was not studied with PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE, or the
JIT compiler was not able to handle the pattern.
</P>
<P>
Once a pattern has been studied, with or without JIT, it can be used as many
times as you like for matching different subject strings.
</P>
<br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS AND PATTERN ITEMS</a><br>
<P>
The only <b>pcre_exec()</b> options that are supported for JIT execution are
PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK, PCRE_NOTBOL, PCRE_NOTEOL, PCRE_NOTEMPTY, and
PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART. Note in particular that partial matching is not
supported.
</P>
<P>
The unsupported pattern items are:
<pre>
  \C            match a single byte, even in UTF-8 mode
  (?Cn)          callouts
  (?(&#60;name&#62;)...  conditional test on setting of a named subpattern
  (?(R)...       conditional test on whole pattern recursion
  (?(Rn)...      conditional test on recursion, by number
  (?(R&name)...  conditional test on recursion, by name
  (*COMMIT)      )
  (*MARK)        )
  (*PRUNE)       ) the backtracking control verbs
  (*SKIP)        )
  (*THEN)        )
</pre>
Support for some of these may be added in future.
</P>
<br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">RETURN VALUES FROM JIT EXECUTION</a><br>
<P>
When a pattern is matched using JIT execution, the return values are the same
as those given by the interpretive <b>pcre_exec()</b> code, with the addition of
one new error code: PCRE_ERROR_JIT_STACKLIMIT. This means that the memory used
for the JIT stack was insufficient. See
<a href="#stackcontrol">"Controlling the JIT stack"</a>
below for a discussion of JIT stack usage. For compatibility with the
interpretive <b>pcre_exec()</b> code, no more than two-thirds of the
<i>ovector</i> argument is used for passing back captured substrings.
</P>
<P>
The error code PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT is returned by the JIT code if searching a
very large pattern tree goes on for too long, as it is in the same circumstance
when JIT is not used, but the details of exactly what is counted are not the
same. The PCRE_ERROR_RECURSIONLIMIT error code is never returned by JIT
execution.
</P>
<br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">SAVING AND RESTORING COMPILED PATTERNS</a><br>
<P>
The code that is generated by the JIT compiler is architecture-specific, and is
also position dependent. For those reasons it cannot be saved (in a file or
database) and restored later like the bytecode and other data of a compiled
pattern. Saving and restoring compiled patterns is not something many people
do. More detail about this facility is given in the
<a href="pcreprecompile.html"><b>pcreprecompile</b></a>
documentation. It should be possible to run <b>pcre_study()</b> on a saved and
restored pattern, and thereby recreate the JIT data, but because JIT
compilation uses significant resources, it is probably not worth doing this;
you might as well recompile the original pattern.
<a name="stackcontrol"></a></P>
<br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">CONTROLLING THE JIT STACK</a><br>
<P>
When the compiled JIT code runs, it needs a block of memory to use as a stack.
By default, it uses 32K on the machine stack. However, some large or
complicated patterns need more than this. The error PCRE_ERROR_JIT_STACKLIMIT
is given when there is not enough stack. Three functions are provided for
managing blocks of memory for use as JIT stacks.
</P>
<P>
The <b>pcre_jit_stack_alloc()</b> function creates a JIT stack. Its arguments
are a starting size and a maximum size, and it returns a pointer to an opaque
structure of type <b>pcre_jit_stack</b>, or NULL if there is an error. The
<b>pcre_jit_stack_free()</b> function can be used to free a stack that is no
longer needed. (For the technically minded: the address space is allocated by
mmap or VirtualAlloc.)
</P>
<P>
JIT uses far less memory for recursion than the interpretive code,
and a maximum stack size of 512K to 1M should be more than enough for any
pattern.
</P>
<P>
The <b>pcre_assign_jit_stack()</b> function specifies which stack JIT code
should use. Its arguments are as follows:
<pre>
  pcre_extra         *extra
  pcre_jit_callback  callback
  void               *data
</pre>
The <i>extra</i> argument must be the result of studying a pattern with
PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE. There are three cases for the values of the other two
options:
<pre>
  (1) If <i>callback</i> is NULL and <i>data</i> is NULL, an internal 32K block
      on the machine stack is used.

  (2) If <i>callback</i> is NULL and <i>data</i> is not NULL, <i>data</i> must be
      a valid JIT stack, the result of calling <b>pcre_jit_stack_alloc()</b>.

  (3) If <i>callback</i> not NULL, it must point to a function that is called
      with <i>data</i> as an argument at the start of matching, in order to
      set up a JIT stack. If the result is NULL, the internal 32K stack
      is used; otherwise the return value must be a valid JIT stack,
      the result of calling <b>pcre_jit_stack_alloc()</b>.
</pre>
You may safely assign the same JIT stack to more than one pattern, as long as
they are all matched sequentially in the same thread. In a multithread
application, each thread must use its own JIT stack.
</P>
<P>
Strictly speaking, even more is allowed. You can assign the same stack to any
number of patterns as long as they are not used for matching by multiple
threads at the same time. For example, you can assign the same stack to all
compiled patterns, and use a global mutex in the callback to wait until the
stack is available for use. However, this is an inefficient solution, and
not recommended.
</P>
<P>
This is a suggestion for how a typical multithreaded program might operate:
<pre>
  During thread initalization
    thread_local_var = pcre_jit_stack_alloc(...)

  During thread exit
    pcre_jit_stack_free(thread_local_var)

  Use a one-line callback function
    return thread_local_var
</pre>
All the functions described in this section do nothing if JIT is not available,
and <b>pcre_assign_jit_stack()</b> does nothing unless the <b>extra</b> argument
is non-NULL and points to a <b>pcre_extra</b> block that is the result of a
successful study with PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE.
</P>
<br><a name="SEC8" href="#TOC1">EXAMPLE CODE</a><br>
<P>
This is a single-threaded example that specifies a JIT stack without using a
callback.
<pre>
  int rc;
  int ovector[30];
  pcre *re;
  pcre_extra *extra;
  pcre_jit_stack *jit_stack;

  re = pcre_compile(pattern, 0, &error, &erroffset, NULL);
  /* Check for errors */
  extra = pcre_study(re, PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE, &error);
  jit_stack = pcre_jit_stack_alloc(32*1024, 512*1024);
  /* Check for error (NULL) */
  pcre_assign_jit_stack(extra, NULL, jit_stack);
  rc = pcre_exec(re, extra, subject, length, 0, 0, ovector, 30);
  /* Check results */
  pcre_free(re);
  pcre_free_study(extra);
  pcre_jit_stack_free(jit_stack);

</PRE>
</P>
<br><a name="SEC9" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br>
<P>
<b>pcreapi</b>(3)
</P>
<br><a name="SEC10" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br>
<P>
Philip Hazel
<br>
University Computing Service
<br>
Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
<br>
</P>
<br><a name="SEC11" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
<P>
Last updated: 23 September 2011
<br>
Copyright &copy; 1997-2011 University of Cambridge.
<br>
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5			<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#00005A" link="#0066FF" alink="#3399FF" vlink="#2222BB">
6			<h1>pcrejit man page</h1>
7			<p>
8			Return to the <a href="index.html">PCRE index page</a>.
9			</p>
10			<p>
11			This page is part of the PCRE HTML documentation. It was generated automatically
12			from the original man page. If there is any nonsense in it, please consult the
13			man page, in case the conversion went wrong.
14			<br>
15			<ul>
16	ph10	691	<li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">PCRE JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a>
17			<li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">AVAILABILITY OF JIT SUPPORT</a>
18			<li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">SIMPLE USE OF JIT</a>
19			<li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS AND PATTERN ITEMS</a>
20			<li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">RETURN VALUES FROM JIT EXECUTION</a>
21			<li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">SAVING AND RESTORING COMPILED PATTERNS</a>
22			<li><a name="TOC7" href="#SEC7">CONTROLLING THE JIT STACK</a>
23			<li><a name="TOC8" href="#SEC8">EXAMPLE CODE</a>
24			<li><a name="TOC9" href="#SEC9">SEE ALSO</a>
25			<li><a name="TOC10" href="#SEC10">AUTHOR</a>
26			<li><a name="TOC11" href="#SEC11">REVISION</a>
27	ph10	678	</ul>
28	ph10	691	<br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">PCRE JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a><br>
29			<P>
30			Just-in-time compiling is a heavyweight optimization that can greatly speed up
31			pattern matching. However, it comes at the cost of extra processing before the
32			match is performed. Therefore, it is of most benefit when the same pattern is
33			going to be matched many times. This does not necessarily mean many calls of
34			\fPpcre_exec()\fP; if the pattern is not anchored, matching attempts may take
35			place many times at various positions in the subject, even for a single call to
36			<b>pcre_exec()</b>. If the subject string is very long, it may still pay to use
37			JIT for one-off matches.
38			</P>
39			<P>
40			JIT support applies only to the traditional matching function,
41			<b>pcre_exec()</b>. It does not apply when <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b> is being used.
42			The code for this support was written by Zoltan Herczeg.
43			</P>
44			<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">AVAILABILITY OF JIT SUPPORT</a><br>
45			<P>
46			JIT support is an optional feature of PCRE. The "configure" option --enable-jit
47			(or equivalent CMake option) must be set when PCRE is built if you want to use
48			JIT. The support is limited to the following hardware platforms:
49			<pre>
50			ARM v5, v7, and Thumb2
51			Intel x86 32-bit and 64-bit
52			MIPS 32-bit
53			Power PC 32-bit and 64-bit
54			</pre>
55			If --enable-jit is set on an unsupported platform, compilation fails.
56			</P>
57			<P>
58			A program can tell if JIT support is available by calling <b>pcre_config()</b>
59			with the PCRE_CONFIG_JIT option. The result is 1 when JIT is available, and 0
60			otherwise. However, a simple program does not need to check this in order to
61			use JIT. The API is implemented in a way that falls back to the ordinary PCRE
62			code if JIT is not available.
63			</P>
64			<br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">SIMPLE USE OF JIT</a><br>
65			<P>
66			You have to do two things to make use of the JIT support in the simplest way:
67			<pre>
68			(1) Call <b>pcre_study()</b> with the PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE option for
69			each compiled pattern, and pass the resulting <b>pcre_extra</b> block to
70			<b>pcre_exec()</b>.
71
72			(2) Use <b>pcre_free_study()</b> to free the <b>pcre_extra</b> block when it is
73			no longer needed instead of just freeing it yourself. This
74			ensures that any JIT data is also freed.
75			</pre>
76			In some circumstances you may need to call additional functions. These are
77			described in the section entitled
78			<a href="#stackcontrol">"Controlling the JIT stack"</a>
79			below.
80			</P>
81			<P>
82			If JIT support is not available, PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE is ignored, and no JIT
83			data is set up. Otherwise, the compiled pattern is passed to the JIT compiler,
84			which turns it into machine code that executes much faster than the normal
85			interpretive code. When <b>pcre_exec()</b> is passed a <b>pcre_extra</b> block
86			containing a pointer to JIT code, it obeys that instead of the normal code. The
87			result is identical, but the code runs much faster.
88			</P>
89			<P>
90			There are some <b>pcre_exec()</b> options that are not supported for JIT
91			execution. There are also some pattern items that JIT cannot handle. Details
92			are given below. In both cases, execution automatically falls back to the
93			interpretive code.
94			</P>
95			<P>
96			If the JIT compiler finds an unsupported item, no JIT data is generated. You
97			can find out if JIT execution is available after studying a pattern by calling
98			<b>pcre_fullinfo()</b> with the PCRE_INFO_JIT option. A result of 1 means that
99	ph10	708	JIT compilation was successful. A result of 0 means that JIT support is not
100	ph10	691	available, or the pattern was not studied with PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE, or the
101			JIT compiler was not able to handle the pattern.
102			</P>
103	ph10	708	<P>
104			Once a pattern has been studied, with or without JIT, it can be used as many
105			times as you like for matching different subject strings.
106			</P>
107	ph10	691	<br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">UNSUPPORTED OPTIONS AND PATTERN ITEMS</a><br>
108			<P>
109			The only <b>pcre_exec()</b> options that are supported for JIT execution are
110			PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK, PCRE_NOTBOL, PCRE_NOTEOL, PCRE_NOTEMPTY, and
111			PCRE_NOTEMPTY_ATSTART. Note in particular that partial matching is not
112			supported.
113			</P>
114			<P>
115			The unsupported pattern items are:
116			<pre>
117			\C match a single byte, even in UTF-8 mode
118			(?Cn) callouts
119			(?(<name>)... conditional test on setting of a named subpattern
120			(?(R)... conditional test on whole pattern recursion
121			(?(Rn)... conditional test on recursion, by number
122			(?(R&name)... conditional test on recursion, by name
123			(*COMMIT) )
124			(*MARK) )
125			(*PRUNE) ) the backtracking control verbs
126			(*SKIP) )
127			(*THEN) )
128			</pre>
129			Support for some of these may be added in future.
130			</P>
131			<br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">RETURN VALUES FROM JIT EXECUTION</a><br>
132			<P>
133			When a pattern is matched using JIT execution, the return values are the same
134			as those given by the interpretive <b>pcre_exec()</b> code, with the addition of
135			one new error code: PCRE_ERROR_JIT_STACKLIMIT. This means that the memory used
136			for the JIT stack was insufficient. See
137			<a href="#stackcontrol">"Controlling the JIT stack"</a>
138			below for a discussion of JIT stack usage. For compatibility with the
139			interpretive <b>pcre_exec()</b> code, no more than two-thirds of the
140			<i>ovector</i> argument is used for passing back captured substrings.
141			</P>
142			<P>
143			The error code PCRE_ERROR_MATCHLIMIT is returned by the JIT code if searching a
144			very large pattern tree goes on for too long, as it is in the same circumstance
145			when JIT is not used, but the details of exactly what is counted are not the
146			same. The PCRE_ERROR_RECURSIONLIMIT error code is never returned by JIT
147			execution.
148			</P>
149			<br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">SAVING AND RESTORING COMPILED PATTERNS</a><br>
150			<P>
151			The code that is generated by the JIT compiler is architecture-specific, and is
152	ph10	708	also position dependent. For those reasons it cannot be saved (in a file or
153			database) and restored later like the bytecode and other data of a compiled
154			pattern. Saving and restoring compiled patterns is not something many people
155			do. More detail about this facility is given in the
156			<a href="pcreprecompile.html"><b>pcreprecompile</b></a>
157			documentation. It should be possible to run <b>pcre_study()</b> on a saved and
158			restored pattern, and thereby recreate the JIT data, but because JIT
159			compilation uses significant resources, it is probably not worth doing this;
160			you might as well recompile the original pattern.
161	ph10	691	<a name="stackcontrol"></a></P>
162			<br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">CONTROLLING THE JIT STACK</a><br>
163			<P>
164			When the compiled JIT code runs, it needs a block of memory to use as a stack.
165			By default, it uses 32K on the machine stack. However, some large or
166			complicated patterns need more than this. The error PCRE_ERROR_JIT_STACKLIMIT
167			is given when there is not enough stack. Three functions are provided for
168			managing blocks of memory for use as JIT stacks.
169			</P>
170			<P>
171			The <b>pcre_jit_stack_alloc()</b> function creates a JIT stack. Its arguments
172			are a starting size and a maximum size, and it returns a pointer to an opaque
173			structure of type <b>pcre_jit_stack</b>, or NULL if there is an error. The
174			<b>pcre_jit_stack_free()</b> function can be used to free a stack that is no
175			longer needed. (For the technically minded: the address space is allocated by
176			mmap or VirtualAlloc.)
177			</P>
178			<P>
179			JIT uses far less memory for recursion than the interpretive code,
180			and a maximum stack size of 512K to 1M should be more than enough for any
181			pattern.
182			</P>
183			<P>
184			The <b>pcre_assign_jit_stack()</b> function specifies which stack JIT code
185			should use. Its arguments are as follows:
186			<pre>
187			pcre_extra *extra
188			pcre_jit_callback callback
189			void *data
190			</pre>
191			The <i>extra</i> argument must be the result of studying a pattern with
192			PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE. There are three cases for the values of the other two
193			options:
194			<pre>
195			(1) If <i>callback</i> is NULL and <i>data</i> is NULL, an internal 32K block
196			on the machine stack is used.
197
198			(2) If <i>callback</i> is NULL and <i>data</i> is not NULL, <i>data</i> must be
199			a valid JIT stack, the result of calling <b>pcre_jit_stack_alloc()</b>.
200
201			(3) If <i>callback</i> not NULL, it must point to a function that is called
202			with <i>data</i> as an argument at the start of matching, in order to
203			set up a JIT stack. If the result is NULL, the internal 32K stack
204			is used; otherwise the return value must be a valid JIT stack,
205			the result of calling <b>pcre_jit_stack_alloc()</b>.
206			</pre>
207			You may safely assign the same JIT stack to more than one pattern, as long as
208			they are all matched sequentially in the same thread. In a multithread
209			application, each thread must use its own JIT stack.
210			</P>
211			<P>
212			Strictly speaking, even more is allowed. You can assign the same stack to any
213			number of patterns as long as they are not used for matching by multiple
214			threads at the same time. For example, you can assign the same stack to all
215			compiled patterns, and use a global mutex in the callback to wait until the
216			stack is available for use. However, this is an inefficient solution, and
217			not recommended.
218			</P>
219			<P>
220			This is a suggestion for how a typical multithreaded program might operate:
221			<pre>
222			During thread initalization
223			thread_local_var = pcre_jit_stack_alloc(...)
224
225			During thread exit
226			pcre_jit_stack_free(thread_local_var)
227
228			Use a one-line callback function
229			return thread_local_var
230			</pre>
231			All the functions described in this section do nothing if JIT is not available,
232			and <b>pcre_assign_jit_stack()</b> does nothing unless the <b>extra</b> argument
233			is non-NULL and points to a <b>pcre_extra</b> block that is the result of a
234			successful study with PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE.
235			</P>
236			<br><a name="SEC8" href="#TOC1">EXAMPLE CODE</a><br>
237			<P>
238			This is a single-threaded example that specifies a JIT stack without using a
239			callback.
240			<pre>
241			int rc;
242			int ovector[30];
243			pcre *re;
244			pcre_extra *extra;
245			pcre_jit_stack *jit_stack;
246
247			re = pcre_compile(pattern, 0, &error, &erroffset, NULL);
248			/* Check for errors */
249			extra = pcre_study(re, PCRE_STUDY_JIT_COMPILE, &error);
250			jit_stack = pcre_jit_stack_alloc(321024, 5121024);
251			/* Check for error (NULL) */
252			pcre_assign_jit_stack(extra, NULL, jit_stack);
253			rc = pcre_exec(re, extra, subject, length, 0, 0, ovector, 30);
254			/* Check results */
255			pcre_free(re);
256			pcre_free_study(extra);
257			pcre_jit_stack_free(jit_stack);
258
259			</PRE>
260			</P>
261			<br><a name="SEC9" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br>
262			<P>
263			<b>pcreapi</b>(3)
264			</P>
265			<br><a name="SEC10" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br>
266			<P>
267			Philip Hazel
268			<br>
269			University Computing Service
270			<br>
271			Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
272			<br>
273			</P>
274			<br><a name="SEC11" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
275			<P>
276	ph10	708	Last updated: 23 September 2011
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