Re: [pcre-dev] issues with EBCDIC and pcretest

On Sun, 14 Jun 2015, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:

> Thank youI am waiting patiently (I really appreciate and value your
> time) on the two issues above in order to continue with the EBCDIC
> test suite.  I plan to go to PCRE2 only after the test suite is done
> and probably not before the next release of PCRE2. 

I have committed the PCRE1 patch that changes \c in EBCDIC. Please test
and let me know if it is OK. I have also (I hope) fixed the behaviour of
\a and \e in pcretest, and \a in pcre_compile(). These fixes are also in
the PCRE2 head so they will be in the next release. I intend to put out
a new PCRE2 release fairly soon. There should be a release candidate in
the next week or so, and then the actual release will happen after a
couple of weeks.

> I would like to re-emphasize that the majority of the test DO pass and
> the issues seem to concentrate around escape sequences that produce
> control characters where there is a significant (if obscure)
> difference between ASCII and EBCDIC, so I think we won't find too many
> major issued anymore.

That is good to know.

Philip

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Philip Hazel