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1 | 1 | ChangeLog for PCRE
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2 | 2 | ------------------
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3 | 3 |
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| 4 | +Version 8.32 30-November-2012 |
| 5 | +----------------------------- |
| 6 | + |
| 7 | +1. Improved JIT compiler optimizations for first character search and single |
| 8 | + character iterators. |
| 9 | + |
| 10 | +2. Supporting IBM XL C compilers for PPC architectures in the JIT compiler. |
| 11 | + Patch by Daniel Richard G. |
| 12 | + |
| 13 | +3. Single character iterator optimizations in the JIT compiler. |
| 14 | + |
| 15 | +4. Improved JIT compiler optimizations for character ranges. |
| 16 | + |
| 17 | +5. Rename the "leave" variable names to "quit" to improve WinCE compatibility. |
| 18 | + Reported by Giuseppe D'Angelo. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +6. The PCRE_STARTLINE bit, indicating that a match can occur only at the start |
| 21 | + of a line, was being set incorrectly in cases where .* appeared inside |
| 22 | + atomic brackets at the start of a pattern, or where there was a subsequent |
| 23 | + *PRUNE or *SKIP. |
| 24 | + |
| 25 | +7. Improved instruction cache flush for POWER/PowerPC. |
| 26 | + Patch by Daniel Richard G. |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +8. Fixed a number of issues in pcregrep, making it more compatible with GNU |
| 29 | + grep: |
| 30 | + |
| 31 | + (a) There is now no limit to the number of patterns to be matched. |
| 32 | + |
| 33 | + (b) An error is given if a pattern is too long. |
| 34 | + |
| 35 | + (c) Multiple uses of --exclude, --exclude-dir, --include, and --include-dir |
| 36 | + are now supported. |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | + (d) --exclude-from and --include-from (multiple use) have been added. |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | + (e) Exclusions and inclusions now apply to all files and directories, not |
| 41 | + just to those obtained from scanning a directory recursively. |
| 42 | + |
| 43 | + (f) Multiple uses of -f and --file-list are now supported. |
| 44 | + |
| 45 | + (g) In a Windows environment, the default for -d has been changed from |
| 46 | + "read" (the GNU grep default) to "skip", because otherwise the presence |
| 47 | + of a directory in the file list provokes an error. |
| 48 | + |
| 49 | + (h) The documentation has been revised and clarified in places. |
| 50 | + |
| 51 | +9. Improve the matching speed of capturing brackets. |
| 52 | + |
| 53 | +10. Changed the meaning of \X so that it now matches a Unicode extended |
| 54 | + grapheme cluster. |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +11. Patch by Daniel Richard G to the autoconf files to add a macro for sorting |
| 57 | + out POSIX threads when JIT support is configured. |
| 58 | + |
| 59 | +12. Added support for PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED. |
| 60 | + |
| 61 | +13. In the POSIX wrapper regcomp() function, setting re_nsub field in the preg |
| 62 | + structure could go wrong in environments where size_t is not the same size |
| 63 | + as int. |
| 64 | + |
| 65 | +14. Applied user-supplied patch to pcrecpp.cc to allow PCRE_NO_UTF8_CHECK to be |
| 66 | + set. |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +15. The EBCDIC support had decayed; later updates to the code had included |
| 69 | + explicit references to (e.g.) \x0a instead of CHAR_LF. There has been a |
| 70 | + general tidy up of EBCDIC-related issues, and the documentation was also |
| 71 | + not quite right. There is now a test that can be run on ASCII systems to |
| 72 | + check some of the EBCDIC-related things (but is it not a full test). |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +16. The new PCRE_STUDY_EXTRA_NEEDED option is now used by pcregrep, resulting |
| 75 | + in a small tidy to the code. |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +17. Fix JIT tests when UTF is disabled and both 8 and 16 bit mode are enabled. |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +18. If the --only-matching (-o) option in pcregrep is specified multiple |
| 80 | + times, each one causes appropriate output. For example, -o1 -o2 outputs the |
| 81 | + substrings matched by the 1st and 2nd capturing parentheses. A separating |
| 82 | + string can be specified by --om-separator (default empty). |
| 83 | + |
| 84 | +19. Improving the first n character searches. |
| 85 | + |
| 86 | +20. Turn case lists for horizontal and vertical white space into macros so that |
| 87 | + they are defined only once. |
| 88 | + |
| 89 | +21. This set of changes together give more compatible Unicode case-folding |
| 90 | + behaviour for characters that have more than one other case when UCP |
| 91 | + support is available. |
| 92 | + |
| 93 | + (a) The Unicode property table now has offsets into a new table of sets of |
| 94 | + three or more characters that are case-equivalent. The MultiStage2.py |
| 95 | + script that generates these tables (the pcre_ucd.c file) now scans |
| 96 | + CaseFolding.txt instead of UnicodeData.txt for character case |
| 97 | + information. |
| 98 | + |
| 99 | + (b) The code for adding characters or ranges of characters to a character |
| 100 | + class has been abstracted into a generalized function that also handles |
| 101 | + case-independence. In UTF-mode with UCP support, this uses the new data |
| 102 | + to handle characters with more than one other case. |
| 103 | + |
| 104 | + (c) A bug that is fixed as a result of (b) is that codepoints less than 256 |
| 105 | + whose other case is greater than 256 are now correctly matched |
| 106 | + caselessly. Previously, the high codepoint matched the low one, but not |
| 107 | + vice versa. |
| 108 | + |
| 109 | + (d) The processing of \h, \H, \v, and \ in character classes now makes use |
| 110 | + of the new class addition function, using character lists defined as |
| 111 | + macros alongside the case definitions of 20 above. |
| 112 | + |
| 113 | + (e) Caseless back references now work with characters that have more than |
| 114 | + one other case. |
| 115 | + |
| 116 | + (f) General caseless matching of characters with more than one other case |
| 117 | + is supported. |
| 118 | + |
| 119 | +22. Unicode character properties were updated from Unicode 6.2.0 |
| 120 | + |
| 121 | +23. Improved CMake support under Windows. Patch by Daniel Richard G. |
| 122 | + |
| 123 | +24. Add support for 32-bit character strings, and UTF-32 |
| 124 | + |
| 125 | +25. Major JIT compiler update (code refactoring and bugfixing). |
| 126 | + Experimental Sparc 32 support is added. |
| 127 | + |
| 128 | +26. Applied a modified version of Daniel Richard G's patch to create |
| 129 | + pcre.h.generic and config.h.generic by "make" instead of in the |
| 130 | + PrepareRelease script. |
| 131 | + |
| 132 | +27. Added a definition for CHAR_NULL (helpful for the z/OS port), and use it in |
| 133 | + pcre_compile.c when checking for a zero character. |
| 134 | + |
| 135 | +28. Introducing a native interface for JIT. Through this interface, the compiled |
| 136 | + machine code can be directly executed. The purpose of this interface is to |
| 137 | + provide fast pattern matching, so several sanity checks are not performed. |
| 138 | + However, feature tests are still performed. The new interface provides |
| 139 | + 1.4x speedup compared to the old one. |
| 140 | + |
| 141 | +29. If pcre_exec() or pcre_dfa_exec() was called with a negative value for |
| 142 | + the subject string length, the error given was PCRE_ERROR_BADOFFSET, which |
| 143 | + was confusing. There is now a new error PCRE_ERROR_BADLENGTH for this case. |
| 144 | + |
| 145 | +30. In 8-bit UTF-8 mode, pcretest failed to give an error for data codepoints |
| 146 | + greater than 0x7fffffff (which cannot be represented in UTF-8, even under |
| 147 | + the "old" RFC 2279). Instead, it ended up passing a negative length to |
| 148 | + pcre_exec(). |
| 149 | + |
| 150 | +31. Add support for GCC's visibility feature to hide internal functions. |
| 151 | + |
| 152 | +32. Running "pcretest -C pcre8" or "pcretest -C pcre16" gave a spurious error |
| 153 | + "unknown -C option" after outputting 0 or 1. |
| 154 | + |
| 155 | +33. There is now support for generating a code coverage report for the test |
| 156 | + suite in environments where gcc is the compiler and lcov is installed. This |
| 157 | + is mainly for the benefit of the developers. |
| 158 | + |
| 159 | +34. If PCRE is built with --enable-valgrind, certain memory regions are marked |
| 160 | + unaddressable using valgrind annotations, allowing valgrind to detect |
| 161 | + invalid memory accesses. This is mainly for the benefit of the developers. |
| 162 | + |
| 163 | +25. (*UTF) can now be used to start a pattern in any of the three libraries. |
| 164 | + |
| 165 | +26. Give configure error if --enable-cpp but no C++ compiler found. |
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4 | 168 | Version 8.31 06-July-2012
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