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authorph10 <ph10@2f5784b3-3f2a-0410-8824-cb99058d5e15>2013-11-19 15:36:57 +0000
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Source tidies for 8.34-RC1.
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@@ -9,8 +9,10 @@ from:
ftp://ftp.csx.cam.ac.uk/pub/software/programming/pcre/pcre-xxx.zip
There is a mailing list for discussion about the development of PCRE at
+pcre-dev@exim.org. You can access the archives and subscribe or manage your
+subscription here:
- pcre-dev@exim.org
+ https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
Please read the NEWS file if you are upgrading from a previous release.
The contents of this README file are:
@@ -112,6 +114,11 @@ contributions provided support for compiling PCRE on various flavours of
Windows (I myself do not use Windows). Nowadays there is more Windows support
in the standard distribution, so these contibutions have been archived.
+A PCRE user maintains downloadable Windows binaries of the pcregrep and
+pcretest programs here:
+
+ http://www.rexegg.com/pcregrep-pcretest.html
+
Building PCRE on non-Unix-like systems
--------------------------------------
@@ -262,9 +269,17 @@ library. They are also documented in the pcrebuild man page.
on the "configure" command.
-. PCRE has a counter that can be set to limit the amount of resources it uses.
- If the limit is exceeded during a match, the match fails. The default is ten
- million. You can change the default by setting, for example,
+. PCRE has a counter that limits the depth of nesting of parentheses in a
+ pattern. This limits the amount of system stack that a pattern uses when it
+ is compiled. The default is 250, but you can change it by setting, for
+ example,
+
+ --with-parens-nest-limit=500
+
+. PCRE has a counter that can be set to limit the amount of resources it uses
+ when matching a pattern. If the limit is exceeded during a match, the match
+ fails. The default is ten million. You can change the default by setting, for
+ example,
--with-match-limit=500000
@@ -344,7 +359,8 @@ library. They are also documented in the pcrebuild man page.
report is generated by running "make coverage". If ccache is installed on
your system, it must be disabled when building PCRE for coverage reporting.
You can do this by setting the environment variable CCACHE_DISABLE=1 before
- running "make" to build PCRE.
+ running "make" to build PCRE. There is more information about coverage
+ reporting in the "pcrebuild" documentation.
. The pcregrep program currently supports only 8-bit data files, and so
requires the 8-bit PCRE library. It is possible to compile pcregrep to use
@@ -971,4 +987,4 @@ pcre_xxx, one with the name pcre16_xx, and a third with the name pcre32_xxx.
Philip Hazel
Email local part: ph10
Email domain: cam.ac.uk
-Last updated: 28 April 2013
+Last updated: 05 November 2013