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@@ -757,6 +757,15 @@ that represent character classes for code points less than 256. The final
8 decimal digit
16 alphanumeric or '_'
+You can also specify -b (with or without -L) when running pcre2_dftables. This
+causes the tables to be written in binary instead of as source code. A set of
+binary tables can be loaded into memory by an application and passed to
+pcre2_compile() in the same way as tables created dynamically by calling
+pcre2_maketables(). The tables are just a string of bytes, independent of
+hardware characteristics such as endianness. This means they can be bundled
+with an application that runs in different environments, to ensure consistent
+behaviour.
+
See also the pcre2build section "Creating character tables at build time".
@@ -894,4 +903,4 @@ The distribution should contain the files listed below.
Philip Hazel
Email local part: Philip.Hazel
Email domain: gmail.com
-Last updated: 06 November 2020
+Last updated: 04 December 2020