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-ChangeLog for PCRE
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-
-
-Version 3.4 22-Aug-00
----------------------
-
-1. Fixed typo in pcre.h: unsigned const char * changed to const unsigned char *.
-
-2. Diagnose condition (?(0) as an error instead of crashing on matching.
-
-
-Version 3.3 01-Aug-00
----------------------
-
-1. If an octal character was given, but the value was greater than \377, it
-was not getting masked to the least significant bits, as documented. This could
-lead to crashes in some systems.
-
-2. Perl 5.6 (if not earlier versions) accepts classes like [a-\d] and treats
-the hyphen as a literal. PCRE used to give an error; it now behaves like Perl.
-
-3. Added the functions pcre_free_substring() and pcre_free_substring_list().
-These just pass their arguments on to (pcre_free)(), but they are provided
-because some uses of PCRE bind it to non-C systems that can call its functions,
-but cannot call free() or pcre_free() directly.
-
-4. Add "make test" as a synonym for "make check". Corrected some comments in
-the Makefile.
-
-5. Add $(DESTDIR)/ in front of all the paths in the "install" target in the
-Makefile.
-
-6. Changed the name of pgrep to pcregrep, because Solaris has introduced a
-command called pgrep for grepping around the active processes.
-
-7. Added the beginnings of support for UTF-8 character strings.
-
-8. Arranged for the Makefile to pass over the settings of CC, CFLAGS, and
-RANLIB to ./ltconfig so that they are used by libtool. I think these are all
-the relevant ones. (AR is not passed because ./ltconfig does its own figuring
-out for the ar command.)
-
-
-Version 3.2 12-May-00
----------------------
-
-This is purely a bug fixing release.
-
-1. If the pattern /((Z)+|A)*/ was matched agained ZABCDEFG it matched Z instead
-of ZA. This was just one example of several cases that could provoke this bug,
-which was introduced by change 9 of version 2.00. The code for breaking
-infinite loops after an iteration that matches an empty string was't working
-correctly.
-
-2. The pcretest program was not imitating Perl correctly for the pattern /a*/g
-when matched against abbab (for example). After matching an empty string, it
-wasn't forcing anchoring when setting PCRE_NOTEMPTY for the next attempt; this
-caused it to match further down the string than it should.
-
-3. The code contained an inclusion of sys/types.h. It isn't clear why this
-was there because it doesn't seem to be needed, and it causes trouble on some
-systems, as it is not a Standard C header. It has been removed.
-
-4. Made 4 silly changes to the source to avoid stupid compiler warnings that
-were reported on the Macintosh. The changes were from
-
- while ((c = *(++ptr)) != 0 && c != '\n');
-to
- while ((c = *(++ptr)) != 0 && c != '\n') ;
-
-Totally extraordinary, but if that's what it takes...
-
-5. PCRE is being used in one environment where neither memmove() nor bcopy() is
-available. Added HAVE_BCOPY and an autoconf test for it; if neither
-HAVE_MEMMOVE nor HAVE_BCOPY is set, use a built-in emulation function which
-assumes the way PCRE uses memmove() (always moving upwards).
-
-6. PCRE is being used in one environment where strchr() is not available. There
-was only one use in pcre.c, and writing it out to avoid strchr() probably gives
-faster code anyway.
-
-
-Version 3.1 09-Feb-00
----------------------
-
-The only change in this release is the fixing of some bugs in Makefile.in for
-the "install" target:
-
-(1) It was failing to install pcreposix.h.
-
-(2) It was overwriting the pcre.3 man page with the pcreposix.3 man page.
-
-
-Version 3.0 01-Feb-00
----------------------
-
-1. Add support for the /+ modifier to perltest (to output $` like it does in
-pcretest).
-
-2. Add support for the /g modifier to perltest.
-
-3. Fix pcretest so that it behaves even more like Perl for /g when the pattern
-matches null strings.
-
-4. Fix perltest so that it doesn't do unwanted things when fed an empty
-pattern. Perl treats empty patterns specially - it reuses the most recent
-pattern, which is not what we want. Replace // by /(?#)/ in order to avoid this
-effect.
-
-5. The POSIX interface was broken in that it was just handing over the POSIX
-captured string vector to pcre_exec(), but (since release 2.00) PCRE has
-required a bigger vector, with some working space on the end. This means that
-the POSIX wrapper now has to get and free some memory, and copy the results.
-
-6. Added some simple autoconf support, placing the test data and the
-documentation in separate directories, re-organizing some of the
-information files, and making it build pcre-config (a GNU standard). Also added
-libtool support for building PCRE as a shared library, which is now the
-default.
-
-7. Got rid of the leading zero in the definition of PCRE_MINOR because 08 and
-09 are not valid octal constants. Single digits will be used for minor values
-less than 10.
-
-8. Defined REG_EXTENDED and REG_NOSUB as zero in the POSIX header, so that
-existing programs that set these in the POSIX interface can use PCRE without
-modification.
-
-9. Added a new function, pcre_fullinfo() with an extensible interface. It can
-return all that pcre_info() returns, plus additional data. The pcre_info()
-function is retained for compatibility, but is considered to be obsolete.
-
-10. Added experimental recursion feature (?R) to handle one common case that
-Perl 5.6 will be able to do with (?p{...}).
-
-11. Added support for POSIX character classes like [:alpha:], which Perl is
-adopting.
-
-
-Version 2.08 31-Aug-99
-----------------------
-
-1. When startoffset was not zero and the pattern began with ".*", PCRE was not
-trying to match at the startoffset position, but instead was moving forward to
-the next newline as if a previous match had failed.
-
-2. pcretest was not making use of PCRE_NOTEMPTY when repeating for /g and /G,
-and could get into a loop if a null string was matched other than at the start
-of the subject.
-
-3. Added definitions of PCRE_MAJOR and PCRE_MINOR to pcre.h so the version can
-be distinguished at compile time, and for completeness also added PCRE_DATE.
-
-5. Added Paul Sokolovsky's minor changes to make it easy to compile a Win32 DLL
-in GnuWin32 environments.
-
-
-Version 2.07 29-Jul-99
-----------------------
-
-1. The documentation is now supplied in plain text form and HTML as well as in
-the form of man page sources.
-
-2. C++ compilers don't like assigning (void *) values to other pointer types.
-In particular this affects malloc(). Although there is no problem in Standard
-C, I've put in casts to keep C++ compilers happy.
-
-3. Typo on pcretest.c; a cast of (unsigned char *) in the POSIX regexec() call
-should be (const char *).
-
-4. If NOPOSIX is defined, pcretest.c compiles without POSIX support. This may
-be useful for non-Unix systems who don't want to bother with the POSIX stuff.
-However, I haven't made this a standard facility. The documentation doesn't
-mention it, and the Makefile doesn't support it.
-
-5. The Makefile now contains an "install" target, with editable destinations at
-the top of the file. The pcretest program is not installed.
-
-6. pgrep -V now gives the PCRE version number and date.
-
-7. Fixed bug: a zero repetition after a literal string (e.g. /abcde{0}/) was
-causing the entire string to be ignored, instead of just the last character.
-
-8. If a pattern like /"([^\\"]+|\\.)*"/ is applied in the normal way to a
-non-matching string, it can take a very, very long time, even for strings of
-quite modest length, because of the nested recursion. PCRE now does better in
-some of these cases. It does this by remembering the last required literal
-character in the pattern, and pre-searching the subject to ensure it is present
-before running the real match. In other words, it applies a heuristic to detect
-some types of certain failure quickly, and in the above example, if presented
-with a string that has no trailing " it gives "no match" very quickly.
-
-9. A new runtime option PCRE_NOTEMPTY causes null string matches to be ignored;
-other alternatives are tried instead.
-
-
-Version 2.06 09-Jun-99
-----------------------
-
-1. Change pcretest's output for amount of store used to show just the code
-space, because the remainder (the data block) varies in size between 32-bit and
-64-bit systems.
-
-2. Added an extra argument to pcre_exec() to supply an offset in the subject to
-start matching at. This allows lookbehinds to work when searching for multiple
-occurrences in a string.
-
-3. Added additional options to pcretest for testing multiple occurrences:
-
- /+ outputs the rest of the string that follows a match
- /g loops for multiple occurrences, using the new startoffset argument
- /G loops for multiple occurrences by passing an incremented pointer
-
-4. PCRE wasn't doing the "first character" optimization for patterns starting
-with \b or \B, though it was doing it for other lookbehind assertions. That is,
-it wasn't noticing that a match for a pattern such as /\bxyz/ has to start with
-the letter 'x'. On long subject strings, this gives a significant speed-up.
-
-
-Version 2.05 21-Apr-99
-----------------------
-
-1. Changed the type of magic_number from int to long int so that it works
-properly on 16-bit systems.
-
-2. Fixed a bug which caused patterns starting with .* not to work correctly
-when the subject string contained newline characters. PCRE was assuming
-anchoring for such patterns in all cases, which is not correct because .* will
-not pass a newline unless PCRE_DOTALL is set. It now assumes anchoring only if
-DOTALL is set at top level; otherwise it knows that patterns starting with .*
-must be retried after every newline in the subject.
-
-
-Version 2.04 18-Feb-99
-----------------------
-
-1. For parenthesized subpatterns with repeats whose minimum was zero, the
-computation of the store needed to hold the pattern was incorrect (too large).
-If such patterns were nested a few deep, this could multiply and become a real
-problem.
-
-2. Added /M option to pcretest to show the memory requirement of a specific
-pattern. Made -m a synonym of -s (which does this globally) for compatibility.
-
-3. Subpatterns of the form (regex){n,m} (i.e. limited maximum) were being
-compiled in such a way that the backtracking after subsequent failure was
-pessimal. Something like (a){0,3} was compiled as (a)?(a)?(a)? instead of
-((a)((a)(a)?)?)? with disastrous performance if the maximum was of any size.
-
-
-Version 2.03 02-Feb-99
-----------------------
-
-1. Fixed typo and small mistake in man page.
-
-2. Added 4th condition (GPL supersedes if conflict) and created separate
-LICENCE file containing the conditions.
-
-3. Updated pcretest so that patterns such as /abc\/def/ work like they do in
-Perl, that is the internal \ allows the delimiter to be included in the
-pattern. Locked out the use of \ as a delimiter. If \ immediately follows
-the final delimiter, add \ to the end of the pattern (to test the error).
-
-4. Added the convenience functions for extracting substrings after a successful
-match. Updated pcretest to make it able to test these functions.
-
-
-Version 2.02 14-Jan-99
-----------------------
-
-1. Initialized the working variables associated with each extraction so that
-their saving and restoring doesn't refer to uninitialized store.
-
-2. Put dummy code into study.c in order to trick the optimizer of the IBM C
-compiler for OS/2 into generating correct code. Apparently IBM isn't going to
-fix the problem.
-
-3. Pcretest: the timing code wasn't using LOOPREPEAT for timing execution
-calls, and wasn't printing the correct value for compiling calls. Increased the
-default value of LOOPREPEAT, and the number of significant figures in the
-times.
-
-4. Changed "/bin/rm" in the Makefile to "-rm" so it works on Windows NT.
-
-5. Renamed "deftables" as "dftables" to get it down to 8 characters, to avoid
-a building problem on Windows NT with a FAT file system.
-
-
-Version 2.01 21-Oct-98
-----------------------
-
-1. Changed the API for pcre_compile() to allow for the provision of a pointer
-to character tables built by pcre_maketables() in the current locale. If NULL
-is passed, the default tables are used.
-
-
-Version 2.00 24-Sep-98
-----------------------
-
-1. Since the (>?) facility is in Perl 5.005, don't require PCRE_EXTRA to enable
-it any more.
-
-2. Allow quantification of (?>) groups, and make it work correctly.
-
-3. The first character computation wasn't working for (?>) groups.
-
-4. Correct the implementation of \Z (it is permitted to match on the \n at the
-end of the subject) and add 5.005's \z, which really does match only at the
-very end of the subject.
-
-5. Remove the \X "cut" facility; Perl doesn't have it, and (?> is neater.
-
-6. Remove the ability to specify CASELESS, MULTILINE, DOTALL, and
-DOLLAR_END_ONLY at runtime, to make it possible to implement the Perl 5.005
-localized options. All options to pcre_study() were also removed.
-
-7. Add other new features from 5.005:
-
- $(?<= positive lookbehind
- $(?<! negative lookbehind
- (?imsx-imsx) added the unsetting capability
- such a setting is global if at outer level; local otherwise
- (?imsx-imsx:) non-capturing groups with option setting
- (?(cond)re|re) conditional pattern matching
-
- A backreference to itself in a repeated group matches the previous
- captured string.
-
-8. General tidying up of studying (both automatic and via "study")
-consequential on the addition of new assertions.
-
-9. As in 5.005, unlimited repeated groups that could match an empty substring
-are no longer faulted at compile time. Instead, the loop is forcibly broken at
-runtime if any iteration does actually match an empty substring.
-
-10. Include the RunTest script in the distribution.
-
-11. Added tests from the Perl 5.005_02 distribution. This showed up a few
-discrepancies, some of which were old and were also with respect to 5.004. They
-have now been fixed.
-
-
-Version 1.09 28-Apr-98
-----------------------
-
-1. A negated single character class followed by a quantifier with a minimum
-value of one (e.g. [^x]{1,6} ) was not compiled correctly. This could lead to
-program crashes, or just wrong answers. This did not apply to negated classes
-containing more than one character, or to minima other than one.
-
-
-Version 1.08 27-Mar-98
-----------------------
-
-1. Add PCRE_UNGREEDY to invert the greediness of quantifiers.
-
-2. Add (?U) and (?X) to set PCRE_UNGREEDY and PCRE_EXTRA respectively. The
-latter must appear before anything that relies on it in the pattern.
-
-
-Version 1.07 16-Feb-98
-----------------------
-
-1. A pattern such as /((a)*)*/ was not being diagnosed as in error (unlimited
-repeat of a potentially empty string).
-
-
-Version 1.06 23-Jan-98
-----------------------
-
-1. Added Markus Oberhumer's little patches for C++.
-
-2. Literal strings longer than 255 characters were broken.
-
-
-Version 1.05 23-Dec-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Negated character classes containing more than one character were failing if
-PCRE_CASELESS was set at run time.
-
-
-Version 1.04 19-Dec-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Corrected the man page, where some "const" qualifiers had been omitted.
-
-2. Made debugging output print "{0,xxx}" instead of just "{,xxx}" to agree with
-input syntax.
-
-3. Fixed memory leak which occurred when a regex with back references was
-matched with an offsets vector that wasn't big enough. The temporary memory
-that is used in this case wasn't being freed if the match failed.
-
-4. Tidied pcretest to ensure it frees memory that it gets.
-
-5. Temporary memory was being obtained in the case where the passed offsets
-vector was exactly big enough.
-
-6. Corrected definition of offsetof() from change 5 below.
-
-7. I had screwed up change 6 below and broken the rules for the use of
-setjmp(). Now fixed.
-
-
-Version 1.03 18-Dec-97
-----------------------
-
-1. A erroneous regex with a missing opening parenthesis was correctly
-diagnosed, but PCRE attempted to access brastack[-1], which could cause crashes
-on some systems.
-
-2. Replaced offsetof(real_pcre, code) by offsetof(real_pcre, code[0]) because
-it was reported that one broken compiler failed on the former because "code" is
-also an independent variable.
-
-3. The erroneous regex a[]b caused an array overrun reference.
-
-4. A regex ending with a one-character negative class (e.g. /[^k]$/) did not
-fail on data ending with that character. (It was going on too far, and checking
-the next character, typically a binary zero.) This was specific to the
-optimized code for single-character negative classes.
-
-5. Added a contributed patch from the TIN world which does the following:
-
- + Add an undef for memmove, in case the the system defines a macro for it.
-
- + Add a definition of offsetof(), in case there isn't one. (I don't know
- the reason behind this - offsetof() is part of the ANSI standard - but
- it does no harm).
-
- + Reduce the ifdef's in pcre.c using macro DPRINTF, thereby eliminating
- most of the places where whitespace preceded '#'. I have given up and
- allowed the remaining 2 cases to be at the margin.
-
- + Rename some variables in pcre to eliminate shadowing. This seems very
- pedantic, but does no harm, of course.
-
-6. Moved the call to setjmp() into its own function, to get rid of warnings
-from gcc -Wall, and avoided calling it at all unless PCRE_EXTRA is used.
-
-7. Constructs such as \d{8,} were compiling into the equivalent of
-\d{8}\d{0,65527} instead of \d{8}\d* which didn't make much difference to the
-outcome, but in this particular case used more store than had been allocated,
-which caused the bug to be discovered because it threw up an internal error.
-
-8. The debugging code in both pcre and pcretest for outputting the compiled
-form of a regex was going wrong in the case of back references followed by
-curly-bracketed repeats.
-
-
-Version 1.02 12-Dec-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Typos in pcre.3 and comments in the source fixed.
-
-2. Applied a contributed patch to get rid of places where it used to remove
-'const' from variables, and fixed some signed/unsigned and uninitialized
-variable warnings.
-
-3. Added the "runtest" target to Makefile.
-
-4. Set default compiler flag to -O2 rather than just -O.
-
-
-Version 1.01 19-Nov-97
-----------------------
-
-1. PCRE was failing to diagnose unlimited repeat of empty string for patterns
-like /([ab]*)*/, that is, for classes with more than one character in them.
-
-2. Likewise, it wasn't diagnosing patterns with "once-only" subpatterns, such
-as /((?>a*))*/ (a PCRE_EXTRA facility).
-
-
-Version 1.00 18-Nov-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Added compile-time macros to support systems such as SunOS4 which don't have
-memmove() or strerror() but have other things that can be used instead.
-
-2. Arranged that "make clean" removes the executables.
-
-
-Version 0.99 27-Oct-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Fixed bug in code for optimizing classes with only one character. It was
-initializing a 32-byte map regardless, which could cause it to run off the end
-of the memory it had got.
-
-2. Added, conditional on PCRE_EXTRA, the proposed (?>REGEX) construction.
-
-
-Version 0.98 22-Oct-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Fixed bug in code for handling temporary memory usage when there are more
-back references than supplied space in the ovector. This could cause segfaults.
-
-
-Version 0.97 21-Oct-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Added the \X "cut" facility, conditional on PCRE_EXTRA.
-
-2. Optimized negated single characters not to use a bit map.
-
-3. Brought error texts together as macro definitions; clarified some of them;
-fixed one that was wrong - it said "range out of order" when it meant "invalid
-escape sequence".
-
-4. Changed some char * arguments to const char *.
-
-5. Added PCRE_NOTBOL and PCRE_NOTEOL (from POSIX).
-
-6. Added the POSIX-style API wrapper in pcreposix.a and testing facilities in
-pcretest.
-
-
-Version 0.96 16-Oct-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Added a simple "pgrep" utility to the distribution.
-
-2. Fixed an incompatibility with Perl: "{" is now treated as a normal character
-unless it appears in one of the precise forms "{ddd}", "{ddd,}", or "{ddd,ddd}"
-where "ddd" means "one or more decimal digits".
-
-3. Fixed serious bug. If a pattern had a back reference, but the call to
-pcre_exec() didn't supply a large enough ovector to record the related
-identifying subpattern, the match always failed. PCRE now remembers the number
-of the largest back reference, and gets some temporary memory in which to save
-the offsets during matching if necessary, in order to ensure that
-backreferences always work.
-
-4. Increased the compatibility with Perl in a number of ways:
-
- (a) . no longer matches \n by default; an option PCRE_DOTALL is provided
- to request this handling. The option can be set at compile or exec time.
-
- (b) $ matches before a terminating newline by default; an option
- PCRE_DOLLAR_ENDONLY is provided to override this (but not in multiline
- mode). The option can be set at compile or exec time.
-
- (c) The handling of \ followed by a digit other than 0 is now supposed to be
- the same as Perl's. If the decimal number it represents is less than 10
- or there aren't that many previous left capturing parentheses, an octal
- escape is read. Inside a character class, it's always an octal escape,
- even if it is a single digit.
-
- (d) An escaped but undefined alphabetic character is taken as a literal,
- unless PCRE_EXTRA is set. Currently this just reserves the remaining
- escapes.
-
- (e) {0} is now permitted. (The previous item is removed from the compiled
- pattern).
-
-5. Changed all the names of code files so that the basic parts are no longer
-than 10 characters, and abolished the teeny "globals.c" file.
-
-6. Changed the handling of character classes; they are now done with a 32-byte
-bit map always.
-
-7. Added the -d and /D options to pcretest to make it possible to look at the
-internals of compilation without having to recompile pcre.
-
-
-Version 0.95 23-Sep-97
-----------------------
-
-1. Fixed bug in pre-pass concerning escaped "normal" characters such as \x5c or
-\x20 at the start of a run of normal characters. These were being treated as
-real characters, instead of the source characters being re-checked.
-
-
-Version 0.94 18-Sep-97
-----------------------
-
-1. The functions are now thread-safe, with the caveat that the global variables
-containing pointers to malloc() and free() or alternative functions are the
-same for all threads.
-
-2. Get pcre_study() to generate a bitmap of initial characters for non-
-anchored patterns when this is possible, and use it if passed to pcre_exec().
-
-
-Version 0.93 15-Sep-97
-----------------------
-
-1. /(b)|(:+)/ was computing an incorrect first character.
-
-2. Add pcre_study() to the API and the passing of pcre_extra to pcre_exec(),
-but not actually doing anything yet.
-
-3. Treat "-" characters in classes that cannot be part of ranges as literals,
-as Perl does (e.g. [-az] or [az-]).
-
-4. Set the anchored flag if a branch starts with .* or .*? because that tests
-all possible positions.
-
-5. Split up into different modules to avoid including unneeded functions in a
-compiled binary. However, compile and exec are still in one module. The "study"
-function is split off.
-
-6. The character tables are now in a separate module whose source is generated
-by an auxiliary program - but can then be edited by hand if required. There are
-now no calls to isalnum(), isspace(), isdigit(), isxdigit(), tolower() or
-toupper() in the code.
-
-7. Turn the malloc/free funtions variables into pcre_malloc and pcre_free and
-make them global. Abolish the function for setting them, as the caller can now
-set them directly.
-
-
-Version 0.92 11-Sep-97
-----------------------
-
-1. A repeat with a fixed maximum and a minimum of 1 for an ordinary character
-(e.g. /a{1,3}/) was broken (I mis-optimized it).
-
-2. Caseless matching was not working in character classes if the characters in
-the pattern were in upper case.
-
-3. Make ranges like [W-c] work in the same way as Perl for caseless matching.
-
-4. Make PCRE_ANCHORED public and accept as a compile option.
-
-5. Add an options word to pcre_exec() and accept PCRE_ANCHORED and
-PCRE_CASELESS at run time. Add escapes \A and \I to pcretest to cause it to
-pass them.
-
-6. Give an error if bad option bits passed at compile or run time.
-
-7. Add PCRE_MULTILINE at compile and exec time, and (?m) as well. Add \M to
-pcretest to cause it to pass that flag.
-
-8. Add pcre_info(), to get the number of identifying subpatterns, the stored
-options, and the first character, if set.
-
-9. Recognize C+ or C{n,m} where n >= 1 as providing a fixed starting character.
-
-
-Version 0.91 10-Sep-97
-----------------------
-
-1. PCRE was failing to diagnose unlimited repeats of subpatterns that could
-match the empty string as in /(a*)*/. It was looping and ultimately crashing.
-
-2. PCRE was looping on encountering an indefinitely repeated back reference to
-a subpattern that had matched an empty string, e.g. /(a|)\1*/. It now does what
-Perl does - treats the match as successful.
-
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