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ChangeLog for PCRE
------------------
+Version 8.34 15-December-2013
+-----------------------------
+
+1. Add pcre[16|32]_jit_free_unused_memory to forcibly free unused JIT
+ executable memory. Patch inspired by Carsten Klein.
+
+2. ./configure --enable-coverage defined SUPPORT_GCOV in config.h, although
+ this macro is never tested and has no effect, because the work to support
+ coverage involves only compiling and linking options and special targets in
+ the Makefile. The comment in config.h implied that defining the macro would
+ enable coverage support, which is totally false. There was also support for
+ setting this macro in the CMake files (my fault, I just copied it from
+ configure). SUPPORT_GCOV has now been removed.
+
+3. Make a small performance improvement in strlen16() and strlen32() in
+ pcretest.
+
+4. Change 36 for 8.33 left some unreachable statements in pcre_exec.c,
+ detected by the Solaris compiler (gcc doesn't seem to be able to diagnose
+ these cases). There was also one in pcretest.c.
+
+5. Cleaned up a "may be uninitialized" compiler warning in pcre_exec.c.
+
+6. In UTF mode, the code for checking whether a group could match an empty
+ string (which is used for indefinitely repeated groups to allow for
+ breaking an infinite loop) was broken when the group contained a repeated
+ negated single-character class with a character that occupied more than one
+ data item and had a minimum repetition of zero (for example, [^\x{100}]* in
+ UTF-8 mode). The effect was undefined: the group might or might not be
+ deemed as matching an empty string, or the program might have crashed.
+
+7. The code for checking whether a group could match an empty string was not
+ recognizing that \h, \H, \v, \V, and \R must match a character.
+
+8. Implemented PCRE_INFO_MATCH_EMPTY, which yields 1 if the pattern can match
+ an empty string. If it can, pcretest shows this in its information output.
+
+9. Fixed two related bugs that applied to Unicode extended grapheme clusters
+ that were repeated with a maximizing qualifier (e.g. \X* or \X{2,5}) when
+ matched by pcre_exec() without using JIT:
+
+ (a) If the rest of the pattern did not match after a maximal run of
+ grapheme clusters, the code for backing up to try with fewer of them
+ did not always back up over a full grapheme when characters that do not
+ have the modifier quality were involved, e.g. Hangul syllables.
+
+ (b) If the match point in a subject started with modifier character, and
+ there was no match, the code could incorrectly back up beyond the match
+ point, and potentially beyond the first character in the subject,
+ leading to a segfault or an incorrect match result.
+
+10. A conditional group with an assertion condition could lead to PCRE
+ recording an incorrect first data item for a match if no other first data
+ item was recorded. For example, the pattern (?(?=ab)ab) recorded "a" as a
+ first data item, and therefore matched "ca" after "c" instead of at the
+ start.
+
+11. Change 40 for 8.33 (allowing pcregrep to find empty strings) showed up a
+ bug that caused the command "echo a | ./pcregrep -M '|a'" to loop.
+
+12. The source of pcregrep now includes z/OS-specific code so that it can be
+ compiled for z/OS as part of the special z/OS distribution.
+
+13. Added the -T and -TM options to pcretest.
+
+14. The code in pcre_compile.c for creating the table of named capturing groups
+ has been refactored. Instead of creating the table dynamically during the
+ actual compiling pass, the information is remembered during the pre-compile
+ pass (on the stack unless there are more than 20 named groups, in which
+ case malloc() is used) and the whole table is created before the actual
+ compile happens. This has simplified the code (it is now nearly 150 lines
+ shorter) and prepared the way for better handling of references to groups
+ with duplicate names.
+
+15. A back reference to a named subpattern when there is more than one of the
+ same name now checks them in the order in which they appear in the pattern.
+ The first one that is set is used for the reference. Previously only the
+ first one was inspected. This change makes PCRE more compatible with Perl.
+
+16. Unicode character properties were updated from Unicode 6.3.0.
+
+17. The compile-time code for auto-possessification has been refactored, based
+ on a patch by Zoltan Herczeg. It now happens after instead of during
+ compilation. The code is cleaner, and more cases are handled. The option
+ PCRE_NO_AUTO_POSSESS is added for testing purposes, and the -O and /O
+ options in pcretest are provided to set it. It can also be set by
+ (*NO_AUTO_POSSESS) at the start of a pattern.
+
+18. The character VT has been added to the default ("C" locale) set of
+ characters that match \s and are generally treated as white space,
+ following this same change in Perl 5.18. There is now no difference between
+ "Perl space" and "POSIX space". Whether VT is treated as white space in
+ other locales depends on the locale.
+
+19. The code for checking named groups as conditions, either for being set or
+ for being recursed, has been refactored (this is related to 14 and 15
+ above). Processing unduplicated named groups should now be as fast at
+ numerical groups, and processing duplicated groups should be faster than
+ before.
+
+20. Two patches to the CMake build system, by Alexander Barkov:
+
+ (1) Replace the "source" command by "." in CMakeLists.txt because
+ "source" is a bash-ism.
+
+ (2) Add missing HAVE_STDINT_H and HAVE_INTTYPES_H to config-cmake.h.in;
+ without these the CMake build does not work on Solaris.
+
+21. Perl has changed its handling of \8 and \9. If there is no previously
+ encountered capturing group of those numbers, they are treated as the
+ literal characters 8 and 9 instead of a binary zero followed by the
+ literals. PCRE now does the same.
+
+22. Following Perl, added \o{} to specify codepoints in octal, making it
+ possible to specify values greater than 0777 and also making them
+ unambiguous.
+
+23. Perl now gives an error for missing closing braces after \x{... instead of
+ treating the string as literal. PCRE now does the same.
+
+24. RunTest used to grumble if an inappropriate test was selected explicitly,
+ but just skip it when running all tests. This make it awkward to run ranges
+ of tests when one of them was inappropriate. Now it just skips any
+ inappropriate tests, as it always did when running all tests.
+
+25. If PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT and PCRE_UCP were set for a pattern that contained
+ character types such as \d or \w, too many callouts were inserted, and the
+ data that they returned was rubbish.
+
+26. In UCP mode, \s was not matching two of the characters that Perl matches,
+ namely NEL (U+0085) and MONGOLIAN VOWEL SEPARATOR (U+180E), though they
+ were matched by \h. The code has now been refactored so that the lists of
+ the horizontal and vertical whitespace characters used for \h and \v (which
+ are defined only in one place) are now also used for \s.
+
+27. Add JIT support for the 64 bit TileGX architecture.
+ Patch by Jiong Wang (Tilera Corporation).
+
+28. Possessive quantifiers for classes (both explicit and automatically
+ generated) now use special opcodes instead of wrapping in ONCE brackets.
+
+29. Whereas an item such as A{4}+ ignored the possessivenes of the quantifier
+ (because it's meaningless), this was not happening when PCRE_CASELESS was
+ set. Not wrong, but inefficient.
+
+30. Updated perltest.pl to add /u (force Unicode mode) when /W (use Unicode
+ properties for \w, \d, etc) is present in a test regex. Otherwise if the
+ test contains no characters greater than 255, Perl doesn't realise it
+ should be using Unicode semantics.
+
+31. Upgraded the handling of the POSIX classes [:graph:], [:print:], and
+ [:punct:] when PCRE_UCP is set so as to include the same characters as Perl
+ does in Unicode mode.
+
+32. Added the "forbid" facility to pcretest so that putting tests into the
+ wrong test files can sometimes be quickly detected.
+
+33. There is now a limit (default 250) on the depth of nesting of parentheses.
+ This limit is imposed to control the amount of system stack used at compile
+ time. It can be changed at build time by --with-parens-nest-limit=xxx or
+ the equivalent in CMake.
+
+34. Character classes such as [A-\d] or [a-[:digit:]] now cause compile-time
+ errors. Perl warns for these when in warning mode, but PCRE has no facility
+ for giving warnings.
+
+35. Change 34 for 8.13 allowed quantifiers on assertions, because Perl does.
+ However, this was not working for (?!) because it is optimized to (*FAIL),
+ for which PCRE does not allow quantifiers. The optimization is now disabled
+ when a quantifier follows (?!). I can't see any use for this, but it makes
+ things uniform.
+
+36. Perl no longer allows group names to start with digits, so I have made this
+ change also in PCRE. It simplifies the code a bit.
+
+37. In extended mode, Perl ignores spaces before a + that indicates a
+ possessive quantifier. PCRE allowed a space before the quantifier, but not
+ before the possessive +. It now does.
+
+38. The use of \K (reset reported match start) within a repeated possessive
+ group such as (a\Kb)*+ was not working.
+
+40. Document that the same character tables must be used at compile time and
+ run time, and that the facility to pass tables to pcre_exec() and
+ pcre_dfa_exec() is for use only with saved/restored patterns.
+
+41. Applied Jeff Trawick's patch CMakeLists.txt, which "provides two new
+ features for Builds with MSVC:
+
+ 1. Support pcre.rc and/or pcreposix.rc (as is already done for MinGW
+ builds). The .rc files can be used to set FileDescription and many other
+ attributes.
+
+ 2. Add an option (-DINSTALL_MSVC_PDB) to enable installation of .pdb files.
+ This allows higher-level build scripts which want .pdb files to avoid
+ hard-coding the exact files needed."
+
+42. Added support for [[:<:]] and [[:>:]] as used in the BSD POSIX library to
+ mean "start of word" and "end of word", respectively, as a transition aid.
+
+43. A minimizing repeat of a class containing codepoints greater than 255 in
+ non-UTF 16-bit or 32-bit modes caused an internal error when PCRE was
+ compiled to use the heap for recursion.
+
+44. Got rid of some compiler warnings for unused variables when UTF but not UCP
+ is configured.
+
+
+Version 8.33 28-May-2013
+------------------------
+
+1. Added 'U' to some constants that are compared to unsigned integers, to
+ avoid compiler signed/unsigned warnings. Added (int) casts to unsigned
+ variables that are added to signed variables, to ensure the result is
+ signed and can be negated.
+
+2. Applied patch by Daniel Richard G for quashing MSVC warnings to the
+ CMake config files.
+
+3. Revise the creation of config.h.generic so that all boolean macros are
+ #undefined, whereas non-boolean macros are #ifndef/#endif-ed. This makes
+ overriding via -D on the command line possible.
+
+4. Changing the definition of the variable "op" in pcre_exec.c from pcre_uchar
+ to unsigned int is reported to make a quite noticeable speed difference in
+ a specific Windows environment. Testing on Linux did also appear to show
+ some benefit (and it is clearly not harmful). Also fixed the definition of
+ Xop which should be unsigned.
+
+5. Related to (4), changing the definition of the intermediate variable cc
+ in repeated character loops from pcre_uchar to pcre_uint32 also gave speed
+ improvements.
+
+6. Fix forward search in JIT when link size is 3 or greater. Also removed some
+ unnecessary spaces.
+
+7. Adjust autogen.sh and configure.ac to lose warnings given by automake 1.12
+ and later.
+
+8. Fix two buffer over read issues in 16 and 32 bit modes. Affects JIT only.
+
+9. Optimizing fast_forward_start_bits in JIT.
+
+10. Adding support for callouts in JIT, and fixing some issues revealed
+ during this work. Namely:
+
+ (a) Unoptimized capturing brackets incorrectly reset on backtrack.
+
+ (b) Minimum length was not checked before the matching is started.
+
+11. The value of capture_last that is passed to callouts was incorrect in some
+ cases when there was a capture on one path that was subsequently abandoned
+ after a backtrack. Also, the capture_last value is now reset after a
+ recursion, since all captures are also reset in this case.
+
+12. The interpreter no longer returns the "too many substrings" error in the
+ case when an overflowing capture is in a branch that is subsequently
+ abandoned after a backtrack.
+
+13. In the pathological case when an offset vector of size 2 is used, pcretest
+ now prints out the matched string after a yield of 0 or 1.
+
+14. Inlining subpatterns in recursions, when certain conditions are fulfilled.
+ Only supported by the JIT compiler at the moment.
+
+15. JIT compiler now supports 32 bit Macs thanks to Lawrence Velazquez.
+
+16. Partial matches now set offsets[2] to the "bumpalong" value, that is, the
+ offset of the starting point of the matching process, provided the offsets
+ vector is large enough.
+
+17. The \A escape now records a lookbehind value of 1, though its execution
+ does not actually inspect the previous character. This is to ensure that,
+ in partial multi-segment matching, at least one character from the old
+ segment is retained when a new segment is processed. Otherwise, if there
+ are no lookbehinds in the pattern, \A might match incorrectly at the start
+ of a new segment.
+
+18. Added some #ifdef __VMS code into pcretest.c to help VMS implementations.
+
+19. Redefined some pcre_uchar variables in pcre_exec.c as pcre_uint32; this
+ gives some modest performance improvement in 8-bit mode.
+
+20. Added the PCRE-specific property \p{Xuc} for matching characters that can
+ be expressed in certain programming languages using Universal Character
+ Names.
+
+21. Unicode validation has been updated in the light of Unicode Corrigendum #9,
+ which points out that "non characters" are not "characters that may not
+ appear in Unicode strings" but rather "characters that are reserved for
+ internal use and have only local meaning".
+
+22. When a pattern was compiled with automatic callouts (PCRE_AUTO_CALLOUT) and
+ there was a conditional group that depended on an assertion, if the
+ assertion was false, the callout that immediately followed the alternation
+ in the condition was skipped when pcre_exec() was used for matching.
+
+23. Allow an explicit callout to be inserted before an assertion that is the
+ condition for a conditional group, for compatibility with automatic
+ callouts, which always insert a callout at this point.
+
+24. In 8.31, (*COMMIT) was confined to within a recursive subpattern. Perl also
+ confines (*SKIP) and (*PRUNE) in the same way, and this has now been done.
+
+25. (*PRUNE) is now supported by the JIT compiler.
+
+26. Fix infinite loop when /(?<=(*SKIP)ac)a/ is matched against aa.
+
+27. Fix the case where there are two or more SKIPs with arguments that may be
+ ignored.
+
+28. (*SKIP) is now supported by the JIT compiler.
+
+29. (*THEN) is now supported by the JIT compiler.
+
+30. Update RunTest with additional test selector options.
+
+31. The way PCRE handles backtracking verbs has been changed in two ways.
+
+ (1) Previously, in something like (*COMMIT)(*SKIP), COMMIT would override
+ SKIP. Now, PCRE acts on whichever backtracking verb is reached first by
+ backtracking. In some cases this makes it more Perl-compatible, but Perl's
+ rather obscure rules do not always do the same thing.
+
+ (2) Previously, backtracking verbs were confined within assertions. This is
+ no longer the case for positive assertions, except for (*ACCEPT). Again,
+ this sometimes improves Perl compatibility, and sometimes does not.
+
+32. A number of tests that were in test 2 because Perl did things differently
+ have been moved to test 1, because either Perl or PCRE has changed, and
+ these tests are now compatible.
+
+32. Backtracking control verbs are now handled in the same way in JIT and
+ interpreter.
+
+33. An opening parenthesis in a MARK/PRUNE/SKIP/THEN name in a pattern that
+ contained a forward subroutine reference caused a compile error.
+
+34. Auto-detect and optimize limited repetitions in JIT.
+
+35. Implement PCRE_NEVER_UTF to lock out the use of UTF, in particular,
+ blocking (*UTF) etc.
+
+36. In the interpreter, maximizing pattern repetitions for characters and
+ character types now use tail recursion, which reduces stack usage.
+
+37. The value of the max lookbehind was not correctly preserved if a compiled
+ and saved regex was reloaded on a host of different endianness.
+
+38. Implemented (*LIMIT_MATCH) and (*LIMIT_RECURSION). As part of the extension
+ of the compiled pattern block, expand the flags field from 16 to 32 bits
+ because it was almost full.
+
+39. Try madvise first before posix_madvise.
+
+40. Change 7 for PCRE 7.9 made it impossible for pcregrep to find empty lines
+ with a pattern such as ^$. It has taken 4 years for anybody to notice! The
+ original change locked out all matches of empty strings. This has been
+ changed so that one match of an empty string per line is recognized.
+ Subsequent searches on the same line (for colouring or for --only-matching,
+ for example) do not recognize empty strings.
+
+41. Applied a user patch to fix a number of spelling mistakes in comments.
+
+42. Data lines longer than 65536 caused pcretest to crash.
+
+43. Clarified the data type for length and startoffset arguments for pcre_exec
+ and pcre_dfa_exec in the function-specific man pages, where they were
+ explicitly stated to be in bytes, never having been updated. I also added
+ some clarification to the pcreapi man page.
+
+44. A call to pcre_dfa_exec() with an output vector size less than 2 caused
+ a segmentation fault.
+
+
Version 8.32 30-November-2012
-----------------------------
@@ -1508,7 +1883,8 @@ Version 7.9 11-Apr-09
7. A pattern that could match an empty string could cause pcregrep to loop; it
doesn't make sense to accept an empty string match in pcregrep, so I have
locked it out (using PCRE's PCRE_NOTEMPTY option). By experiment, this
- seems to be how GNU grep behaves.
+ seems to be how GNU grep behaves. [But see later change 40 for release
+ 8.33.]
8. The pattern (?(?=.*b)b|^) was incorrectly compiled as "match must be at
start or after a newline", because the conditional assertion was not being