Revision: 556
http://www.exim.org/viewvc/pcre2?view=rev&revision=556
Author: ph10
Date: 2016-10-05 17:06:10 +0100 (Wed, 05 Oct 2016)
Log Message:
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Documentation clarification
Modified Paths:
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code/trunk/doc/pcre2_set_max_pattern_length.3
Modified: code/trunk/doc/pcre2_set_max_pattern_length.3
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--- code/trunk/doc/pcre2_set_max_pattern_length.3 2016-10-02 16:01:01 UTC (rev 555)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcre2_set_max_pattern_length.3 2016-10-05 16:06:10 UTC (rev 556)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PCRE2_SET_MAX_PATTERN_LENGTH 3 "05 November 2015" "PCRE2 10.21"
+.TH PCRE2_SET_MAX_PATTERN_LENGTH 3 "05 October 2016" "PCRE2 10.23"
.SH NAME
PCRE2 - Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised API)
.SH SYNOPSIS
@@ -14,8 +14,11 @@
.SH DESCRIPTION
.rs
.sp
-This function sets, in a compile context, the maximum length (in code units) of
-the pattern that can be compiled. The result is always zero.
+This function sets, in a compile context, the maximum text length (in code
+units) of the pattern that can be compiled. The result is always zero. If a
+longer pattern is passed to \fBpcre2_compile()\fP there is an immediate error
+return. The default is effectively unlimited, being the largest value a
+PCRE2_SIZE variable can hold.
.P
There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the
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