Re: [pcre-dev] Help concerning conversion of PCRE to DFA

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:

> On Fri, 13 Aug 2010, Sudheer P wrote:
>
> > I am a graduate trying to implement Snort pattern matching on Graphics
> > Processing Unit and wanted to convert the PCRE to DFA and perform the
> actual
> > matching on GPU. Just wanted to know whether your library helps me in
> > getting the DFA states.
>
> No, I don't think it does. It compiles into its own private internal
> format, not a formal DFA.
>
> Philip
>
> --
> Philip Hazel
>
Thank you for the help. Can the internal format be converted to DFA,and if
yes where can i get the details of this particular format.