Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE test differences

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Author: Michael McCarty
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To: pcre-dev
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] PCRE test differences
Ya know, it's funny... I revisited this just last Friday and discovered the
RunTest script and it (of course) executed without error.

Sorry to waste your time.

On Sat, Apr 11, 2009 at 9:00 AM, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:

> On Tue, 31 Mar 2009, Michael McCarty wrote:
>
> > I've compiled PCRE 7.8 on Linux and ran pcretest (compiled with NOPOSIX
> > defined) on the test data. It passes most of the tests without problem,
> but
> > it apparently fails on testinput7, 8, and 9 (see attached output files).
> >
> > % pcretest -C
> > PCRE version 7.8 2008-09-05
> > Compiled with
> > UTF-8 support
> > Unicode properties support
> > Newline sequence is ANY
> > \R matches all Unicode newlines
> > Internal link size = 2
> > POSIX malloc threshold = 10
> > Default match limit = 10000000
> > Default recursion depth limit = 10000000
> > Match recursion uses stack
> >
> > Are these differences anything I should be concerned about? Any advice
> is
> > welcome.
>
> I've taken a look at these, and they suggest to me that you ran the
> tests in a non-standard way. Did you use the RunTest script? It looks as
> if you ran tests 7,8, and 9 without the -dfa option because the output
> shows that it used the normal matching function rather than the DFA
> matcher. This explains why it did not work as expected.
>
> Philip
>
> --
> Philip Hazel
>