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[PATCH v4 00/19] PCRE v1 improvements & PCRE v2 support

From
Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <avarab@gmail.com>
Date
Apr 25, 2017, 21:05 UTC
Message-ID
<20170425210548.24612-1-avarab@gmail.com>

Trivial changes since last time. Just sending this because I'd like the copy in pu updated. Changes noted below:

Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason (19):
  grep: amend submodule recursion test in preparation for rx engine
    testing
  grep: add tests for grep pattern types being passed to submodules

A s/PCRE/LIBPCRE/ on the test_have_prereq, now makes sense with the series in sequence (error added during rebasing).

  grep: submodule-related case statements should die if new fields are
    added
  grep: remove redundant regflags assignment under PCRE
  grep: remove redundant `regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED` assignments
NEW: Similarly to how we didn't need to set regflags under PCRE, we
were negating REG_EXTENDED under POSIX basic, without ever setting it
in the first place.
This was just as confusing as the PCRE oddity, so remove it.
  Makefile & configure: reword outdated comment about PCRE
  grep: add a test for backreferences in PCRE patterns
  log: add exhaustive tests for pattern style options & config
  log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexp
  grep & rev-list doc: stop promising libpcre for --perl-regexp
  grep: make grep.patternType=[pcre|pcre1] a synonym for "perl"
  test-lib: rename the LIBPCRE prerequisite to PCRE
One corresponding s/LIBPCRE/PCRE/ for the earlier change, see above.
  grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1
  grep: change the internal PCRE code & header names to be PCRE1
  perf: add a performance comparison test of grep -E and -P
  grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT API
  grep: add support for PCRE v2

We now give proper error messages via pcre2_get_error_message() when pcre2_match() fails with errors other than "didn't match", the common case for this is that the engine gave up on a pathological pattern / input combination.

  grep: remove support for concurrent use of both PCRE v1 & v2
  Makefile & configure: make PCRE v2 the default PCRE implementation

Added more details to the commit message about why switching to PCRE v2 by default is a good idea. I hadn't noticed before that deep bugs in PCRE v1 are being WONTFIX'd on the bugtracker saying "nope, never fixing thath in v1, switch to v2".

 Documentation/git-grep.txt         |   7 +-
 Documentation/rev-list-options.txt |   9 +-
 Makefile                           |  39 +++++--
 builtin/grep.c                     |   4 +
 configure.ac                       |  81 ++++++++++++--
 grep.c                             | 222 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
 grep.h                             |  32 +++++-
 revision.c                         |   2 +-
 t/README                           |   4 +-
 t/perf/p7820-grep-engines.sh       |  25 +++++
 t/t4202-log.sh                     |  86 +++++++++++++-
 t/t7810-grep.sh                    |  41 ++++---
 t/t7812-grep-icase-non-ascii.sh    |   4 +-
 t/t7813-grep-icase-iso.sh          |  11 +-
 t/t7814-grep-recurse-submodules.sh | 215 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------
 t/test-lib.sh                      |   3 +-
 16 files changed, 613 insertions(+), 172 deletions(-)
 create mode 100755 t/perf/p7820-grep-engines.sh
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Next: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
Message 1 of 24 in “PCRE v1 improvements & PCRE v2 support”
  1. 00/19 PCRE v1 improvements & PCRE v2 supportÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  2. 01/19 grep: amend submodule recursion test in preparation for rx engine testingÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  3. 02/19 grep: add tests for grep pattern types being passed to submodulesÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  4. 03/19 grep: submodule-related case statements should die if new fields are addedÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  5. 04/19 grep: remove redundant regflags assignment under PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  6. 05/19 grep: remove redundant `regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED` assignmentsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  7. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2017
  8. Junio C HamanoApr 26, 2017
  9. 05/19 grep: remove redundant `regflags &= ~REG_EXTENDED` assignmentsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 26, 2017
  10. Junio C HamanoApr 27, 2017
  11. 06/19 Makefile & configure: reword outdated comment about PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  12. 07/19 grep: add a test for backreferences in PCRE patternsÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  13. 09/19 log: add -P as a synonym for --perl-regexpÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  14. 08/19 log: add exhaustive tests for pattern style options & configÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  15. 10/19 grep & rev-list doc: stop promising libpcre for --perl-regexpÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  16. 12/19 test-lib: rename the LIBPCRE prerequisite to PCREÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  17. 13/19 grep: change the internal PCRE macro names to be PCRE1Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  18. 14/19 grep: change the internal PCRE code & header names to be PCRE1Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  19. 15/19 perf: add a performance comparison test of grep -E and -PÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  20. 11/19 grep: make grep.patternType=[pcre|pcre1] a synonym for "perl"Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  21. 16/19 grep: add support for the PCRE v1 JIT APIÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  22. 17/19 grep: add support for PCRE v2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  23. 18/19 grep: remove support for concurrent use of both PCRE v1 & v2Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017
  24. 19/19 Makefile & configure: make PCRE v2 the default PCRE implementationÆvar Arnfjörð Bjarmason, Apr 25, 2017

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