Revision: 1702
http://vcs.pcre.org/viewvc?view=rev&revision=1702
Author: ph10
Date: 2017-06-13 17:09:24 +0100 (Tue, 13 Jun 2017)
Log Message:
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Documentation update.
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--- code/trunk/doc/pcrejit.3 2017-06-03 16:47:21 UTC (rev 1701)
+++ code/trunk/doc/pcrejit.3 2017-06-13 16:09:24 UTC (rev 1702)
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PCREJIT 3 "17 March 2013" "PCRE 8.33"
+.TH PCREJIT 3 "13 June 2017" "PCRE 8.41"
.SH NAME
PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
.SH "PCRE JUST-IN-TIME COMPILER SUPPORT"
@@ -54,9 +54,11 @@
API that is JIT-specific.
.P
If your program may sometimes be linked with versions of PCRE that are older
-than 8.20, but you want to use JIT when it is available, you can test
-the values of PCRE_MAJOR and PCRE_MINOR, or the existence of a JIT macro such
-as PCRE_CONFIG_JIT, for compile-time control of your code.
+than 8.20, but you want to use JIT when it is available, you can test the
+values of PCRE_MAJOR and PCRE_MINOR, or the existence of a JIT macro such as
+PCRE_CONFIG_JIT, for compile-time control of your code. Also beware that the
+\fBpcre_jit_exec()\fP function was not available before 8.32. See "JIT FAST
+PATH API" section below for details.
.
.
.SH "SIMPLE USE OF JIT"
@@ -404,6 +406,11 @@
.P
Bypassing the sanity checks and the \fBpcre_exec()\fP wrapping can give
speedups of more than 10%.
+.P
+Note that the \fBpcre_jit_exec()\fP function is not available in versions of
+PCRE before 8.32 (released in November 2012). If you need to support versions
+that old you must either use the slower \fBpcre_exec()\fP, or switch between
+the two codepaths by checking the values of PCRE_MAJOR and PCRE_MINOR.
.
.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
@@ -426,6 +433,6 @@
.rs
.sp
.nf
-Last updated: 17 March 2013
-Copyright (c) 1997-2013 University of Cambridge.
+Last updated: 13 June 2017
+Copyright (c) 1997-2017 University of Cambridge.
.fi
