Regex: Update PCRE to v8.35.
I was über lazy at first, so took libs from SM. But actually it's quite easy to compile, so let's update to latest version \o/.
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man page, in case the conversion went wrong.
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<br>
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<ul>
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<li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">PCRE BUILD-TIME OPTIONS</a>
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<li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">BUILDING 8-BIT, 16-BIT AND 32-BIT LIBRARIES</a>
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<li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">BUILDING SHARED AND STATIC LIBRARIES</a>
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<li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">C++ SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">UTF-8, UTF-16 AND UTF-32 SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">UNICODE CHARACTER PROPERTY SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC7" href="#SEC7">JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC8" href="#SEC8">CODE VALUE OF NEWLINE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC9" href="#SEC9">WHAT \R MATCHES</a>
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<li><a name="TOC10" href="#SEC10">POSIX MALLOC USAGE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC11" href="#SEC11">HANDLING VERY LARGE PATTERNS</a>
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<li><a name="TOC12" href="#SEC12">AVOIDING EXCESSIVE STACK USAGE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC13" href="#SEC13">LIMITING PCRE RESOURCE USAGE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC14" href="#SEC14">CREATING CHARACTER TABLES AT BUILD TIME</a>
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<li><a name="TOC15" href="#SEC15">USING EBCDIC CODE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC16" href="#SEC16">PCREGREP OPTIONS FOR COMPRESSED FILE SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC17" href="#SEC17">PCREGREP BUFFER SIZE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC18" href="#SEC18">PCRETEST OPTION FOR LIBREADLINE SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC19" href="#SEC19">DEBUGGING WITH VALGRIND SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC20" href="#SEC20">CODE COVERAGE REPORTING</a>
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<li><a name="TOC21" href="#SEC21">SEE ALSO</a>
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<li><a name="TOC22" href="#SEC22">AUTHOR</a>
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<li><a name="TOC23" href="#SEC23">REVISION</a>
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<li><a name="TOC1" href="#SEC1">BUILDING PCRE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC2" href="#SEC2">PCRE BUILD-TIME OPTIONS</a>
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<li><a name="TOC3" href="#SEC3">BUILDING 8-BIT, 16-BIT AND 32-BIT LIBRARIES</a>
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<li><a name="TOC4" href="#SEC4">BUILDING SHARED AND STATIC LIBRARIES</a>
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<li><a name="TOC5" href="#SEC5">C++ SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC6" href="#SEC6">UTF-8, UTF-16 AND UTF-32 SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC7" href="#SEC7">UNICODE CHARACTER PROPERTY SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC8" href="#SEC8">JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC9" href="#SEC9">CODE VALUE OF NEWLINE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC10" href="#SEC10">WHAT \R MATCHES</a>
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<li><a name="TOC11" href="#SEC11">POSIX MALLOC USAGE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC12" href="#SEC12">HANDLING VERY LARGE PATTERNS</a>
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<li><a name="TOC13" href="#SEC13">AVOIDING EXCESSIVE STACK USAGE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC14" href="#SEC14">LIMITING PCRE RESOURCE USAGE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC15" href="#SEC15">CREATING CHARACTER TABLES AT BUILD TIME</a>
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<li><a name="TOC16" href="#SEC16">USING EBCDIC CODE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC17" href="#SEC17">PCREGREP OPTIONS FOR COMPRESSED FILE SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC18" href="#SEC18">PCREGREP BUFFER SIZE</a>
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<li><a name="TOC19" href="#SEC19">PCRETEST OPTION FOR LIBREADLINE SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC20" href="#SEC20">DEBUGGING WITH VALGRIND SUPPORT</a>
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<li><a name="TOC21" href="#SEC21">CODE COVERAGE REPORTING</a>
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<li><a name="TOC22" href="#SEC22">SEE ALSO</a>
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<li><a name="TOC23" href="#SEC23">AUTHOR</a>
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<li><a name="TOC24" href="#SEC24">REVISION</a>
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</ul>
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<br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">PCRE BUILD-TIME OPTIONS</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC1" href="#TOC1">BUILDING PCRE</a><br>
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<P>
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This document describes the optional features of PCRE that can be selected when
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the library is compiled. It assumes use of the <b>configure</b> script, where
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the optional features are selected or deselected by providing options to
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<b>configure</b> before running the <b>make</b> command. However, the same
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options can be selected in both Unix-like and non-Unix-like environments using
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the GUI facility of <b>cmake-gui</b> if you are using <b>CMake</b> instead of
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<b>configure</b> to build PCRE.
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PCRE is distributed with a <b>configure</b> script that can be used to build the
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library in Unix-like environments using the applications known as Autotools.
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Also in the distribution are files to support building using <b>CMake</b>
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instead of <b>configure</b>. The text file
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<a href="README.txt"><b>README</b></a>
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contains general information about building with Autotools (some of which is
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repeated below), and also has some comments about building on various operating
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systems. There is a lot more information about building PCRE without using
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Autotools (including information about using <b>CMake</b> and building "by
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hand") in the text file called
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<a href="NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD.txt"><b>NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD</b>.</a>
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You should consult this file as well as the
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<a href="README.txt"><b>README</b></a>
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file if you are building in a non-Unix-like environment.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">PCRE BUILD-TIME OPTIONS</a><br>
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<P>
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The rest of this document describes the optional features of PCRE that can be
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selected when the library is compiled. It assumes use of the <b>configure</b>
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script, where the optional features are selected or deselected by providing
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options to <b>configure</b> before running the <b>make</b> command. However, the
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same options can be selected in both Unix-like and non-Unix-like environments
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using the GUI facility of <b>cmake-gui</b> if you are using <b>CMake</b> instead
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of <b>configure</b> to build PCRE.
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</P>
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<P>
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There is a lot more information about building PCRE without using
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<b>configure</b> (including information about using <b>CMake</b> or building "by
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hand") in the file called <i>NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD</i>, which is part of the PCRE
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distribution. You should consult this file as well as the <i>README</i> file if
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you are building in a non-Unix-like environment.
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If you are not using Autotools or <b>CMake</b>, option selection can be done by
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editing the <b>config.h</b> file, or by passing parameter settings to the
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compiler, as described in
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<a href="NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD.txt"><b>NON-AUTOTOOLS-BUILD</b>.</a>
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</P>
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<P>
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The complete list of options for <b>configure</b> (which includes the standard
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@ -67,7 +84,7 @@ The following sections include descriptions of options whose names begin with
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--enable and --disable always come in pairs, so the complementary option always
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exists as well, but as it specifies the default, it is not described.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC2" href="#TOC1">BUILDING 8-BIT, 16-BIT AND 32-BIT LIBRARIES</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">BUILDING 8-BIT, 16-BIT AND 32-BIT LIBRARIES</a><br>
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<P>
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By default, a library called <b>libpcre</b> is built, containing functions that
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take string arguments contained in vectors of bytes, either as single-byte
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@ -78,7 +95,7 @@ strings, by adding
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<pre>
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--enable-pcre16
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</pre>
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to the <b>configure</b> command. You can also build a separate
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to the <b>configure</b> command. You can also build yet another separate
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library, called <b>libpcre32</b>, in which strings are contained in vectors of
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32-bit data units and interpreted either as single-unit characters or UTF-32
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strings, by adding
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@ -94,17 +111,17 @@ and POSIX wrappers are for the 8-bit library only, and that <b>pcregrep</b> is
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an 8-bit program. None of these are built if you select only the 16-bit or
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32-bit libraries.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC3" href="#TOC1">BUILDING SHARED AND STATIC LIBRARIES</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">BUILDING SHARED AND STATIC LIBRARIES</a><br>
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<P>
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The PCRE building process uses <b>libtool</b> to build both shared and static
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Unix libraries by default. You can suppress one of these by adding one of
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The Autotools PCRE building process uses <b>libtool</b> to build both shared and
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static libraries by default. You can suppress one of these by adding one of
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<pre>
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--disable-shared
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--disable-static
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</pre>
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to the <b>configure</b> command, as required.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC4" href="#TOC1">C++ SUPPORT</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">C++ SUPPORT</a><br>
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<P>
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By default, if the 8-bit library is being built, the <b>configure</b> script
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will search for a C++ compiler and C++ header files. If it finds them, it
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@ -115,7 +132,7 @@ strings). You can disable this by adding
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</pre>
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to the <b>configure</b> command.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC5" href="#TOC1">UTF-8, UTF-16 AND UTF-32 SUPPORT</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">UTF-8, UTF-16 AND UTF-32 SUPPORT</a><br>
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<P>
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To build PCRE with support for UTF Unicode character strings, add
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<pre>
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@ -143,7 +160,7 @@ not possible to support both EBCDIC and UTF-8 codes in the same version of the
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library. Consequently, --enable-utf and --enable-ebcdic are mutually
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exclusive.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC6" href="#TOC1">UNICODE CHARACTER PROPERTY SUPPORT</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">UNICODE CHARACTER PROPERTY SUPPORT</a><br>
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<P>
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UTF support allows the libraries to process character codepoints up to 0x10ffff
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in the strings that they handle. On its own, however, it does not provide any
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@ -163,7 +180,7 @@ supported. Details are given in the
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<a href="pcrepattern.html"><b>pcrepattern</b></a>
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documentation.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC7" href="#TOC1">JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC8" href="#TOC1">JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT</a><br>
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<P>
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Just-in-time compiler support is included in the build by specifying
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<pre>
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@ -180,7 +197,7 @@ pcregrep automatically makes use of it, unless you add
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</pre>
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to the "configure" command.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC8" href="#TOC1">CODE VALUE OF NEWLINE</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC9" href="#TOC1">CODE VALUE OF NEWLINE</a><br>
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<P>
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By default, PCRE interprets the linefeed (LF) character as indicating the end
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of a line. This is the normal newline character on Unix-like systems. You can
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@ -213,7 +230,7 @@ Whatever line ending convention is selected when PCRE is built can be
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overridden when the library functions are called. At build time it is
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conventional to use the standard for your operating system.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC9" href="#TOC1">WHAT \R MATCHES</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC10" href="#TOC1">WHAT \R MATCHES</a><br>
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<P>
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By default, the sequence \R in a pattern matches any Unicode newline sequence,
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whatever has been selected as the line ending sequence. If you specify
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@ -224,7 +241,7 @@ the default is changed so that \R matches only CR, LF, or CRLF. Whatever is
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selected when PCRE is built can be overridden when the library functions are
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called.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC10" href="#TOC1">POSIX MALLOC USAGE</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC11" href="#TOC1">POSIX MALLOC USAGE</a><br>
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<P>
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When the 8-bit library is called through the POSIX interface (see the
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<a href="pcreposix.html"><b>pcreposix</b></a>
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@ -240,7 +257,7 @@ such as
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</pre>
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to the <b>configure</b> command.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC11" href="#TOC1">HANDLING VERY LARGE PATTERNS</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC12" href="#TOC1">HANDLING VERY LARGE PATTERNS</a><br>
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<P>
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Within a compiled pattern, offset values are used to point from one part to
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another (for example, from an opening parenthesis to an alternation
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@ -259,7 +276,7 @@ longer offsets slows down the operation of PCRE because it has to load
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additional data when handling them. For the 32-bit library the value is always
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4 and cannot be overridden; the value of --with-link-size is ignored.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC12" href="#TOC1">AVOIDING EXCESSIVE STACK USAGE</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC13" href="#TOC1">AVOIDING EXCESSIVE STACK USAGE</a><br>
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<P>
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When matching with the <b>pcre_exec()</b> function, PCRE implements backtracking
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by making recursive calls to an internal function called <b>match()</b>. In
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slowly when built in this way. This option affects only the <b>pcre_exec()</b>
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function; it is not relevant for <b>pcre_dfa_exec()</b>.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC13" href="#TOC1">LIMITING PCRE RESOURCE USAGE</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC14" href="#TOC1">LIMITING PCRE RESOURCE USAGE</a><br>
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<P>
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Internally, PCRE has a function called <b>match()</b>, which it calls repeatedly
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(sometimes recursively) when matching a pattern with the <b>pcre_exec()</b>
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</pre>
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to the <b>configure</b> command. This value can also be overridden at run time.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC14" href="#TOC1">CREATING CHARACTER TABLES AT BUILD TIME</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC15" href="#TOC1">CREATING CHARACTER TABLES AT BUILD TIME</a><br>
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<P>
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PCRE uses fixed tables for processing characters whose code values are less
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than 256. By default, PCRE is built with a set of tables that are distributed
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create alternative tables when cross compiling, you will have to do so "by
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hand".)
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC15" href="#TOC1">USING EBCDIC CODE</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC16" href="#TOC1">USING EBCDIC CODE</a><br>
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<P>
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PCRE assumes by default that it will run in an environment where the character
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code is ASCII (or Unicode, which is a superset of ASCII). This is the case for
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and equivalent run-time options, refer to these character values in an EBCDIC
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environment.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC16" href="#TOC1">PCREGREP OPTIONS FOR COMPRESSED FILE SUPPORT</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC17" href="#TOC1">PCREGREP OPTIONS FOR COMPRESSED FILE SUPPORT</a><br>
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<P>
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By default, <b>pcregrep</b> reads all files as plain text. You can build it so
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that it recognizes files whose names end in <b>.gz</b> or <b>.bz2</b>, and reads
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relevant libraries are installed on your system. Configuration will fail if
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they are not.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC17" href="#TOC1">PCREGREP BUFFER SIZE</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC18" href="#TOC1">PCREGREP BUFFER SIZE</a><br>
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<P>
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<b>pcregrep</b> uses an internal buffer to hold a "window" on the file it is
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scanning, in order to be able to output "before" and "after" lines when it
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to the <b>configure</b> command. The caller of \fPpcregrep\fP can, however,
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override this value by specifying a run-time option.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC18" href="#TOC1">PCRETEST OPTION FOR LIBREADLINE SUPPORT</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC19" href="#TOC1">PCRETEST OPTION FOR LIBREADLINE SUPPORT</a><br>
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<P>
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If you add
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<pre>
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</pre>
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immediately before the <b>configure</b> command.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC19" href="#TOC1">DEBUGGING WITH VALGRIND SUPPORT</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC20" href="#TOC1">DEBUGGING WITH VALGRIND SUPPORT</a><br>
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<P>
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By adding the
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<pre>
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to mark certain memory regions as unaddressable. This allows it to detect
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invalid memory accesses, and is mostly useful for debugging PCRE itself.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC20" href="#TOC1">CODE COVERAGE REPORTING</a><br>
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<P>
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If your C compiler is gcc, you can build a version of PCRE that can generate a
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code coverage report for its test suite. To enable this, you must install
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information about code coverage, see the <b>gcov</b> and <b>lcov</b>
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documentation.
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC21" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC22" href="#TOC1">SEE ALSO</a><br>
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<P>
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<b>pcreapi</b>(3), <b>pcre16</b>, <b>pcre32</b>, <b>pcre_config</b>(3).
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC22" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC23" href="#TOC1">AUTHOR</a><br>
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<P>
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Philip Hazel
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<br>
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Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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<br>
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</P>
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<br><a name="SEC23" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
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<br><a name="SEC24" href="#TOC1">REVISION</a><br>
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<P>
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Last updated: 30 October 2012
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Last updated: 12 May 2013
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