Re: [pcre-dev] How am I supposed to use PCRE2 JIT in the fac…

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Author: Zoltán Herczeg
Date:  
To: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason
CC: pcre-dev@exim.org
Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] How am I supposed to use PCRE2 JIT in the face of (*NO_JIT) ?
Hi,

> This was a patch to Git as you might have guessed:
> https://public-inbox.org/git/20171122133630.18931-2-avarab@gmail.com/T/#u
> Do you think I need to go back and rework that so I do #1 as well? A
> pedantic reading of the manpage would probably suggest so, but I can't
> see how the JIT compiled size would ever be zero without JIT being
> disabled...


No, you don't. The #1 is useful if you compile the pattern in multiple modes (e.g. partial matching modes). Your patch seems correct.

Yes, a compiled pattern cannot have code size 0. That is impossible.

I also landed a fix to return with bad option if no compiled code is available.

Regards,
Zoltan