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diff --git a/pcre/ChangeLog b/pcre/ChangeLog index 1f1e8600356..7801ef84117 100644 --- a/pcre/ChangeLog +++ b/pcre/ChangeLog @@ -1,6 +1,126 @@ ChangeLog for PCRE ------------------ +Version 8.35 04-April-2014 +-------------------------- + +1. A new flag is set, when property checks are present in an XCLASS. + When this flag is not set, PCRE can perform certain optimizations + such as studying these XCLASS-es. + +2. The auto-possessification of character sets were improved: a normal + and an extended character set can be compared now. Furthermore + the JIT compiler optimizes more character set checks. + +3. Got rid of some compiler warnings for potentially uninitialized variables + that show up only when compiled with -O2. + +4. A pattern such as (?=ab\K) that uses \K in an assertion can set the start + of a match later then the end of the match. The pcretest program was not + handling the case sensibly - it was outputting from the start to the next + binary zero. It now reports this situation in a message, and outputs the + text from the end to the start. + +5. Fast forward search is improved in JIT. Instead of the first three + characters, any three characters with fixed position can be searched. + Search order: first, last, middle. + +6. Improve character range checks in JIT. Characters are read by an inprecise + function now, which returns with an unknown value if the character code is + above a certain treshold (e.g: 256). The only limitation is that the value + must be bigger than the treshold as well. This function is useful, when + the characters above the treshold are handled in the same way. + +7. The macros whose names start with RAWUCHAR are placeholders for a future + mode in which only the bottom 21 bits of 32-bit data items are used. To + make this more memorable for those maintaining the code, the names have + been changed to start with UCHAR21, and an extensive comment has been added + to their definition. + +8. Add missing (new) files sljitNativeTILEGX.c and sljitNativeTILEGX-encoder.c + to the export list in Makefile.am (they were accidentally omitted from the + 8.34 tarball). + +9. The informational output from pcretest used the phrase "starting byte set" + which is inappropriate for the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries. As the output + for "first char" and "need char" really means "non-UTF-char", I've changed + "byte" to "char", and slightly reworded the output. The documentation about + these values has also been (I hope) clarified. + +10. Another JIT related optimization: use table jumps for selecting the correct + backtracking path, when more than four alternatives are present inside a + bracket. + +11. Empty match is not possible, when the minimum length is greater than zero, + and there is no \K in the pattern. JIT should avoid empty match checks in + such cases. + +12. In a caseless character class with UCP support, when a character with more + than one alternative case was not the first character of a range, not all + the alternative cases were added to the class. For example, s and \x{17f} + are both alternative cases for S: the class [RST] was handled correctly, + but [R-T] was not. + +13. The configure.ac file always checked for pthread support when JIT was + enabled. This is not used in Windows, so I have put this test inside a + check for the presence of windows.h (which was already tested for). + +14. Improve pattern prefix search by a simplified Boyer-Moore algorithm in JIT. + The algorithm provides a way to skip certain starting offsets, and usually + faster than linear prefix searches. + +15. Change 13 for 8.20 updated RunTest to check for the 'fr' locale as well + as for 'fr_FR' and 'french'. For some reason, however, it then used the + Windows-specific input and output files, which have 'french' screwed in. + So this could never have worked. One of the problems with locales is that + they aren't always the same. I have now updated RunTest so that it checks + the output of the locale test (test 3) against three different output + files, and it allows the test to pass if any one of them matches. With luck + this should make the test pass on some versions of Solaris where it was + failing. Because of the uncertainty, the script did not used to stop if + test 3 failed; it now does. If further versions of a French locale ever + come to light, they can now easily be added. + +16. If --with-pcregrep-bufsize was given a non-integer value such as "50K", + there was a message during ./configure, but it did not stop. This now + provokes an error. The invalid example in README has been corrected. + If a value less than the minimum is given, the minimum value has always + been used, but now a warning is given. + +17. If --enable-bsr-anycrlf was set, the special 16/32-bit test failed. This + was a bug in the test system, which is now fixed. Also, the list of various + configurations that are tested for each release did not have one with both + 16/32 bits and --enable-bar-anycrlf. It now does. + +18. pcretest was missing "-C bsr" for displaying the \R default setting. + +19. Little endian PowerPC systems are supported now by the JIT compiler. + +20. The fast forward newline mechanism could enter to an infinite loop on + certain invalid UTF-8 input. Although we don't support these cases + this issue can be fixed by a performance optimization. + +21. Change 33 of 8.34 is not sufficient to ensure stack safety because it does + not take account if existing stack usage. There is now a new global + variable called pcre_stack_guard that can be set to point to an external + function to check stack availability. It is called at the start of + processing every parenthesized group. + +22. A typo in the code meant that in ungreedy mode the max/min qualifier + behaved like a min-possessive qualifier, and, for example, /a{1,3}b/U did + not match "ab". + +23. When UTF was disabled, the JIT program reported some incorrect compile + errors. These messages are silenced now. + +24. Experimental support for ARM-64 and MIPS-64 has been added to the JIT + compiler. + +25. Change all the temporary files used in RunGrepTest to be different to those + used by RunTest so that the tests can be run simultaneously, for example by + "make -j check". + + Version 8.34 15-December-2013 ----------------------------- |