src/posix_regex.h


Log

Author Commit Date CI Message
Edward Thomson 622166c4 2019-05-18T19:37:59 regex: disambiguate builtin vs system pcre
Edward Thomson c6e48fef 2019-02-17T21:51:34 regex: allow regex selection in cmake Users can now select which regex implementation they want to use: one of the system `regcomp_l`, the system PCRE, the builtin PCRE or the system's `regcomp`. By default the system `regcomp_l` will be used if it exists, otherwise the system PCRE will be used. If neither of those exist, then the builtin PCRE implementation will be used. The system's `regcomp` is not used by default due to problems with locales.
Edward Thomson 9ceafb57 2019-01-12T22:55:31 regexec: use pcre as our fallback/builtin regex Use PCRE 8.42 as the builtin regex implementation, using its POSIX compatibility layer. PCRE uses ASCII by default and the users locale will not influence its behavior, so its `regcomp` implementation is similar to `regcomp_l` with a C locale.
Edward Thomson ce6d624a 2019-05-19T10:30:04 regex: optionally use PCRE2 Use PCRE2 and its POSIX compatibility layer if requested by the user. Although PCRE2 is adequate for our needs, the PCRE2 POSIX layer as installed on Debian and Ubuntu systems is broken, so we do not opt-in to it by default to avoid breaking users on those platforms.
Edward Thomson 69ecdad5 2019-05-19T10:09:55 regex: use system PCRE if available Attempt to locate a system-installed version of PCRE and use its POSIX compatibility layer, if possible.
Edward Thomson 02683b20 2019-01-12T23:06:39 regexec: prefix all regexec function calls with p_ Prefix all the calls to the the regexec family of functions with `p_`. This allows us to swap out all the regular expression functions with our own implementation. Move the declarations to `posix_regex.h` for simpler inclusion.