Revision: 433
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=433
Author: ph10
Date: 2009-09-02 17:09:13 +0100 (Wed, 02 Sep 2009)
Log Message:
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For regexec(), if pmatch is NULL, force nmatch to be zero.
Modified Paths:
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code/trunk/ChangeLog
code/trunk/doc/pcreposix.3
Modified: code/trunk/ChangeLog
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--- code/trunk/ChangeLog 2009-09-02 16:02:56 UTC (rev 432)
+++ code/trunk/ChangeLog 2009-09-02 16:09:13 UTC (rev 433)
@@ -86,8 +86,12 @@
15. Added REG_UNGREEDY to the pcreposix interface, at the request of a user.
It maps to PCRE_UNGREEDY. It is not, of course, POSIX-compatible, but it
is not the first non-POSIX option to be added. Clearly some people find
- these options useful.
+ these options useful.
+16. If a caller to the POSIX matching function regexec() passes a non-zero
+ value for \fInmatch\fP with a NULL value for \fIpmatch\fP, the value of
+ \fInmatch\fP is forced to zero.
+
Version 7.9 11-Apr-09
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Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcreposix.3
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--- code/trunk/doc/pcreposix.3 2009-09-02 16:02:56 UTC (rev 432)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcreposix.3 2009-09-02 16:09:13 UTC (rev 433)
@@ -206,6 +206,9 @@
strings is returned. The \fInmatch\fP and \fIpmatch\fP arguments of
\fBregexec()\fP are ignored.
.P
+If the value of \fInmatch\fP is zero, or if the value \fIpmatch\fP is NULL,
+no data about any matched strings is returned.
+.P
Otherwise,the portion of the string that was matched, and also any captured
substrings, are returned via the \fIpmatch\fP argument, which points to an
array of \fInmatch\fP structures of type \fIregmatch_t\fP, containing the
