--- embedaddon/pcre/doc/html/pcrelimits.html 2012/02/21 23:05:52 1.1.1.1 +++ embedaddon/pcre/doc/html/pcrelimits.html 2014/06/15 19:46:05 1.1.1.5 @@ -20,13 +20,16 @@ There are some size limitations in PCRE but it is hope practice be relevant.
-The maximum length of a compiled pattern is 65539 (sic) bytes if PCRE is -compiled with the default internal linkage size of 2. If you want to process -regular expressions that are truly enormous, you can compile PCRE with an -internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (see the README file in the source -distribution and the +The maximum length of a compiled pattern is approximately 64K data units (bytes +for the 8-bit library, 16-bit units for the 16-bit library, and 32-bit units for +the 32-bit library) if PCRE is compiled with the default internal linkage size, +which is 2 bytes for the 8-bit and 16-bit libraries, and 4 bytes for the 32-bit +library. If you want to process regular expressions that are truly enormous, +you can compile PCRE with an internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (when building the +16-bit or 32-bit library, 3 is rounded up to 4). See the README file in +the source distribution and the pcrebuild -documentation for details). In these cases the limit is substantially larger. +documentation for details. In these cases the limit is substantially larger. However, the speed of execution is slower.
@@ -34,7 +37,10 @@ All values in repeating quantifiers must be less than
There is no limit to the number of parenthesized subpatterns, but there can be -no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns. +no more than 65535 capturing subpatterns. There is, however, a limit to the +depth of nesting of parenthesized subpatterns of all kinds. This is imposed in +order to limit the amount of system stack used at compile time. The limit can +be specified when PCRE is built; the default is 250.
There is a limit to the number of forward references to subsequent subpatterns @@ -47,6 +53,10 @@ The maximum length of name for a named subpattern is 3 maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000.
+The maximum length of a name in a (*MARK), (*PRUNE), (*SKIP), or (*THEN) verb +is 255 for the 8-bit library and 65535 for the 16-bit and 32-bit libraries. +
+
The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number that an
integer variable can hold. However, when using the traditional matching
function, PCRE uses recursion to handle subpatterns and indefinite repetition.
@@ -71,9 +81,9 @@ Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
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-Last updated: 30 November 2011
+Last updated: 05 November 2013
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