Revision: 1356
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=1356
Author: ph10
Date: 2013-08-15 18:46:58 +0100 (Thu, 15 Aug 2013)
Log Message:
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Fix typo and bad wording.
Modified Paths:
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code/trunk/doc/pcrelimits.3
Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcrelimits.3
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--- code/trunk/doc/pcrelimits.3 2013-08-13 17:34:02 UTC (rev 1355)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcrelimits.3 2013-08-15 17:46:58 UTC (rev 1356)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PCRELIMITS 3 "24 June 2012" "PCRE 8.30"
+.TH PCRELIMITS 3 "15 August 2013" "PCRE 8.34"
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH "SIZE AND OTHER LIMITATIONS"
@@ -8,9 +8,10 @@
practice be relevant.
.P
The maximum length of a compiled pattern is approximately 64K data units (bytes
-for the 8-bit library, 32-bit units for the 32-bit library, and 32-bit units for
-the 32-bit library) if PCRE is compiled with the default internal linkage size
-of 2 bytes. If you want to process regular expressions that are truly enormous,
+for the 8-bit library, 16-bit units for the 16-bit library, and 32-bit units for
+the 32-bit library) if PCRE is compiled with the default internal linkage size,
+which is 2 bytes for the 8-bit and 16-bit libraries, and 4 bytes for the 32-bit
+library. If you want to process regular expressions that are truly enormous,
you can compile PCRE with an internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (when building the
16-bit or 32-bit library, 3 is rounded up to 4). See the \fBREADME\fP file in
the source distribution and the
@@ -34,7 +35,7 @@
maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000.
.P
The maximum length of a name in a (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or (*THEN) verb
-is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit and 32-bit library.
+is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries.
.P
The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number that an
integer variable can hold. However, when using the traditional matching
@@ -62,6 +63,6 @@
.rs
.sp
.nf
-Last updated: 04 May 2012
-Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
+Last updated: 15 August 2013
+Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
.fi
