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ChangeLog for PCRE
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+Version 7.8 05-Sep-08
+---------------------
+
+1. Replaced UCP searching code with optimized version as implemented for Ad
+ Muncher (http://www.admuncher.com/) by Peter Kankowski. This uses a two-
+ stage table and inline lookup instead of a function, giving speed ups of 2
+ to 5 times on some simple patterns that I tested. Permission was given to
+ distribute the MultiStage2.py script that generates the tables (it's not in
+ the tarball, but is in the Subversion repository).
+
+2. Updated the Unicode datatables to Unicode 5.1.0. This adds yet more
+ scripts.
+
+3. Change 12 for 7.7 introduced a bug in pcre_study() when a pattern contained
+ a group with a zero qualifier. The result of the study could be incorrect,
+ or the function might crash, depending on the pattern.
+
+4. Caseless matching was not working for non-ASCII characters in back
+ references. For example, /(\x{de})\1/8i was not matching \x{de}\x{fe}.
+ It now works when Unicode Property Support is available.
+
+5. In pcretest, an escape such as \x{de} in the data was always generating
+ a UTF-8 string, even in non-UTF-8 mode. Now it generates a single byte in
+ non-UTF-8 mode. If the value is greater than 255, it gives a warning about
+ truncation.
+
+6. Minor bugfix in pcrecpp.cc (change "" == ... to NULL == ...).
+
+7. Added two (int) casts to pcregrep when printing the difference of two
+ pointers, in case they are 64-bit values.
+
+8. Added comments about Mac OS X stack usage to the pcrestack man page and to
+ test 2 if it fails.
+
+9. Added PCRE_CALL_CONVENTION just before the names of all exported functions,
+ and a #define of that name to empty if it is not externally set. This is to
+ allow users of MSVC to set it if necessary.
+
+10. The PCRE_EXP_DEFN macro which precedes exported functions was missing from
+ the convenience functions in the pcre_get.c source file.
+
+11. An option change at the start of a pattern that had top-level alternatives
+ could cause overwriting and/or a crash. This command provoked a crash in
+ some environments:
+
+ printf "/(?i)[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbd]|[\xc3\xa9\xc3\xbdA]/8\n" | pcretest
+
+ This potential security problem was recorded as CVE-2008-2371.
+
+12. For a pattern where the match had to start at the beginning or immediately
+ after a newline (e.g /.*anything/ without the DOTALL flag), pcre_exec() and
+ pcre_dfa_exec() could read past the end of the passed subject if there was
+ no match. To help with detecting such bugs (e.g. with valgrind), I modified
+ pcretest so that it places the subject at the end of its malloc-ed buffer.
+
+13. The change to pcretest in 12 above threw up a couple more cases when pcre_
+ exec() might read past the end of the data buffer in UTF-8 mode.
+
+14. A similar bug to 7.3/2 existed when the PCRE_FIRSTLINE option was set and
+ the data contained the byte 0x85 as part of a UTF-8 character within its
+ first line. This applied both to normal and DFA matching.
+
+15. Lazy qualifiers were not working in some cases in UTF-8 mode. For example,
+ /^[^d]*?$/8 failed to match "abc".
+
+16. Added a missing copyright notice to pcrecpp_internal.h.
+
+17. Make it more clear in the documentation that values returned from
+ pcre_exec() in ovector are byte offsets, not character counts.
+
+18. Tidied a few places to stop certain compilers from issuing warnings.
+
+19. Updated the Virtual Pascal + BCC files to compile the latest v7.7, as
+ supplied by Stefan Weber. I made a further small update for 7.8 because
+ there is a change of source arrangements: the pcre_searchfuncs.c module is
+ replaced by pcre_ucd.c.
+
+
+Version 7.7 07-May-08
+---------------------
+
+1. Applied Craig's patch to sort out a long long problem: "If we can't convert
+ a string to a long long, pretend we don't even have a long long." This is
+ done by checking for the strtoq, strtoll, and _strtoi64 functions.
+
+2. Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to restore ABI compatibility with
+ pre-7.6 versions, which defined a global no_arg variable instead of putting
+ it in the RE class. (See also #8 below.)
+
+3. Remove a line of dead code, identified by coverity and reported by Nuno
+ Lopes.
+
+4. Fixed two related pcregrep bugs involving -r with --include or --exclude:
+
+ (1) The include/exclude patterns were being applied to the whole pathnames
+ of files, instead of just to the final components.
+
+ (2) If there was more than one level of directory, the subdirectories were
+ skipped unless they satisfied the include/exclude conditions. This is
+ inconsistent with GNU grep (and could even be seen as contrary to the
+ pcregrep specification - which I improved to make it absolutely clear).
+ The action now is always to scan all levels of directory, and just
+ apply the include/exclude patterns to regular files.
+
+5. Added the --include_dir and --exclude_dir patterns to pcregrep, and used
+ --exclude_dir in the tests to avoid scanning .svn directories.
+
+6. Applied Craig's patch to the QuoteMeta function so that it escapes the
+ NUL character as backslash + 0 rather than backslash + NUL, because PCRE
+ doesn't support NULs in patterns.
+
+7. Added some missing "const"s to declarations of static tables in
+ pcre_compile.c and pcre_dfa_exec.c.
+
+8. Applied Craig's patch to pcrecpp.cc to fix a problem in OS X that was
+ caused by fix #2 above. (Subsequently also a second patch to fix the
+ first patch. And a third patch - this was a messy problem.)
+
+9. Applied Craig's patch to remove the use of push_back().
+
+10. Applied Alan Lehotsky's patch to add REG_STARTEND support to the POSIX
+ matching function regexec().
+
+11. Added support for the Oniguruma syntax \g<name>, \g<n>, \g'name', \g'n',
+ which, however, unlike Perl's \g{...}, are subroutine calls, not back
+ references. PCRE supports relative numbers with this syntax (I don't think
+ Oniguruma does).
+
+12. Previously, a group with a zero repeat such as (...){0} was completely
+ omitted from the compiled regex. However, this means that if the group
+ was called as a subroutine from elsewhere in the pattern, things went wrong
+ (an internal error was given). Such groups are now left in the compiled
+ pattern, with a new opcode that causes them to be skipped at execution
+ time.
+
+13. Added the PCRE_JAVASCRIPT_COMPAT option. This makes the following changes
+ to the way PCRE behaves:
+
+ (a) A lone ] character is dis-allowed (Perl treats it as data).
+
+ (b) A back reference to an unmatched subpattern matches an empty string
+ (Perl fails the current match path).
+
+ (c) A data ] in a character class must be notated as \] because if the
+ first data character in a class is ], it defines an empty class. (In
+ Perl it is not possible to have an empty class.) The empty class []
+ never matches; it forces failure and is equivalent to (*FAIL) or (?!).
+ The negative empty class [^] matches any one character, independently
+ of the DOTALL setting.
+
+14. A pattern such as /(?2)[]a()b](abc)/ which had a forward reference to a
+ non-existent subpattern following a character class starting with ']' and
+ containing () gave an internal compiling error instead of "reference to
+ non-existent subpattern". Fortunately, when the pattern did exist, the
+ compiled code was correct. (When scanning forwards to check for the
+ existencd of the subpattern, it was treating the data ']' as terminating
+ the class, so got the count wrong. When actually compiling, the reference
+ was subsequently set up correctly.)
+
+15. The "always fail" assertion (?!) is optimzed to (*FAIL) by pcre_compile;
+ it was being rejected as not supported by pcre_dfa_exec(), even though
+ other assertions are supported. I have made pcre_dfa_exec() support
+ (*FAIL).
+
+16. The implementation of 13c above involved the invention of a new opcode,
+ OP_ALLANY, which is like OP_ANY but doesn't check the /s flag. Since /s
+ cannot be changed at match time, I realized I could make a small
+ improvement to matching performance by compiling OP_ALLANY instead of
+ OP_ANY for "." when DOTALL was set, and then removing the runtime tests
+ on the OP_ANY path.
+
+17. Compiling pcretest on Windows with readline support failed without the
+ following two fixes: (1) Make the unistd.h include conditional on
+ HAVE_UNISTD_H; (2) #define isatty and fileno as _isatty and _fileno.
+
+18. Changed CMakeLists.txt and cmake/FindReadline.cmake to arrange for the
+ ncurses library to be included for pcretest when ReadLine support is
+ requested, but also to allow for it to be overridden. This patch came from
+ Daniel Bergström.
+
+19. There was a typo in the file ucpinternal.h where f0_rangeflag was defined
+ as 0x00f00000 instead of 0x00800000. Luckily, this would not have caused
+ any errors with the current Unicode tables. Thanks to Peter Kankowski for
+ spotting this.
+
+
Version 7.6 28-Jan-08
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