--- embedaddon/pcre/doc/pcrelimits.3	2012/02/21 23:05:52	1.1
+++ embedaddon/pcre/doc/pcrelimits.3	2012/10/09 09:19:17	1.1.1.3
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.TH PCRELIMITS 3
+.TH PCRELIMITS 3 "04 May 2012" "PCRE 8.30"
 .SH NAME
 PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
 .SH "SIZE AND OTHER LIMITATIONS"
@@ -7,15 +7,16 @@ PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions
 There are some size limitations in PCRE but it is hoped that they will never in
 practice be relevant.
 .P
-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
+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) if PCRE is compiled
+with the default internal linkage size of 2 bytes. 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 \fBREADME\fP file in the source
-distribution and the
+internal linkage size of 3 or 4 (when building the 16-bit library, 3 is rounded
+up to 4). See the \fBREADME\fP file in the source distribution and the
 .\" HREF
 \fBpcrebuild\fP
 .\"
-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.
 .P
 All values in repeating quantifiers must be less than 65536.
@@ -31,6 +32,9 @@ the count. There is no limit to the number of backward
 The maximum length of name for a named subpattern is 32 characters, and the
 maximum number of named subpatterns is 10000.
 .P
+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 library.
+.P
 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.
@@ -57,6 +61,6 @@ Cambridge CB2 3QH, England.
 .rs
 .sp
 .nf
-Last updated: 30 November 2011
-Copyright (c) 1997-2011 University of Cambridge.
+Last updated: 04 May 2012
+Copyright (c) 1997-2012 University of Cambridge.
 .fi