Re: [pcre-dev] Problems and questions about locales

Hello Philip

You're right, I didn't consider that this way, maybe except that extra
useless computation is done.
Thank you for spending time on this question.
Actually, tables have been statically computed for each OS separately.
I will see what differences in behaviour will occur.

Kind regards,
Patrice.

ph10@??? a écrit :
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020, Patrice Guérin wrote:
>
>> To be consistent with the pcre2_maketables_free() function in terms of
>> alloc/free usage,
>> provide a pcre2_maketables_reserve() function :
>>
>> PCRE2_EXP_DEFN uint8_t * PCRE2_CALL_CONVENTION
>> pcre2_maketables_reserve(pcre2_general_context *gcontext, PCRE2_SIZE
>> *table_size )
>>
>> which do the allocation, the same as at the beginning of pcre2_maketables()
>> and can be reused here
>> and return the table buffer and tables_length in table_size parameter.
> Thanks for the idea, but:
>
> I'm not sure what that gains over just using pcre2_maketables() and
> having the length available so you can overwrite the tables if you want
> to. An alternative is to have pcre2_maketables2() which returns an extra
> parameter, but I think this is such a rare requirement, so I didn't want
> to add too much to the API.
>
>> In dftables, add a -b option to save the table buffer after computation in
>> binary format instead of the C format ;
>> the file argument is unchanged.
> That is a useful idea; I will consider it.
>
> Philip
>