[Pcre-svn] [178] code/trunk/src/pcre2_match.c: Ensure that t…

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Subject: [Pcre-svn] [178] code/trunk/src/pcre2_match.c: Ensure that the function op_recurse_ovecsave is not inlined when compiled by
Revision: 178
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Author:   ph10
Date:     2014-12-31 11:15:03 +0000 (Wed, 31 Dec 2014)


Log Message:
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Ensure that the function op_recurse_ovecsave is not inlined when compiled by
gcc.

Modified Paths:
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    code/trunk/src/pcre2_match.c


Modified: code/trunk/src/pcre2_match.c
===================================================================
--- code/trunk/src/pcre2_match.c    2014-12-22 17:33:10 UTC (rev 177)
+++ code/trunk/src/pcre2_match.c    2014-12-31 11:15:03 UTC (rev 178)
@@ -437,6 +437,19 @@
 point to a new recursion data block, and all its fields other than ovec_save
 have been set.


+This function exists so that the local vector variable ovecsave is no longer
+defined in the match() function, as it was in PCRE1. It is used only when there
+is recursion in the pattern, so it wastes a lot of stack to have it defined for
+every call of match(). We now use this function as an indirect way of calling
+match() only in the case when ovecsave is needed. (David Wheeler used to say
+"All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of
+indirection.")
+
+HOWEVER: when this file is compiled by gcc in an optimizing mode, because this 
+function is called only once, and only from within match(), gcc will "inline"
+it - that is, move it inside match() - and this completely negates its reason
+for existence. Therefore, we mark it as non-inline when gcc is in use.
+
 Arguments:
   eptr        pointer to current character in subject
   callpat     the recursion point in the pattern
@@ -452,6 +465,9 @@
 */


static int
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+__attribute__ ((noinline))
+#endif
op_recurse_ovecsave(REGISTER PCRE2_SPTR eptr, PCRE2_SPTR callpat,
PCRE2_SPTR mstart, PCRE2_SIZE offset_top, match_block *mb, eptrblock *eptrb,
uint32_t rdepth)