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authorKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-01-15 09:45:24 -0700
committerKarl Williamson <public@khwilliamson.com>2011-01-16 08:18:54 -0700
commitf424400810b6af341e96230836690da51c37b812 (patch)
tree28d71e6f599eaa41330f7919e90ffd6b6367a5f2 /regcomp.h
parentd658a8a81c4f311bef688fd51df924a424429f14 (diff)
downloadperl-f424400810b6af341e96230836690da51c37b812.tar.gz
regcomp: Share two bits in ANYOF flags
It turns out that the INVERT and EOS flags can actually share the same bit, as explained in the comments, freeing up a bit for other uses. No code changes need be made.
Diffstat (limited to 'regcomp.h')
-rw-r--r--regcomp.h25
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 8 deletions
diff --git a/regcomp.h b/regcomp.h
index 6adb47a183..0dc4374973 100644
--- a/regcomp.h
+++ b/regcomp.h
@@ -313,11 +313,15 @@ struct regnode_charclass_class {
#define USE_UNI 0x01
/* Flags for node->flags of ANYOF. These are in short supply, so some games
- * are done to share them, as described below. For flags that are applicable
- * to the synthetic start class (stc) only, with some work, they could be put
- * in the next-node field, or in an unused bit of the classflags field. Once
- * the planned change to compile all the above-latin1 code points is done, then
- * the UNICODE_ALL bit can be freed up */
+ * are done to share them, as described below. If necessary, the ANYOF_LOCALE
+ * and ANYOF_CLASS bits could be shared with a space penalty for locale nodes
+ * (and the code at the time this comment was written, is written so that all
+ * that is necessary to make the change would be to redefine the ANYOF_CLASS
+ * define). Once the planned change to compile all the above-latin1 code points
+ * is done, then the UNICODE_ALL bit can be freed up. If flags need to be
+ * added that are applicable to the synthetic start class only, with some work,
+ * they could be put in the next-node field, or in an unused bit of the
+ * classflags field. */
#define ANYOF_LOCALE 0x01
@@ -332,6 +336,14 @@ struct regnode_charclass_class {
#define ANYOF_INVERT 0x04
+/* EOS, meaning that it can match an empty string too, is used for the
+ * synthetic start class (ssc) only. It can share the INVERT bit, as the ssc
+ * is never inverted. The bit just needs to be turned off before regexec.c
+ * gets a hold of it so that regexec.c doesn't think it's inverted, but this
+ * happens automatically, as if the ssc can match an EOS, the ssc is discarded,
+ * and never passed to regexec.c */
+#define ANYOF_EOS ANYOF_INVERT
+
/* CLASS is never set unless LOCALE is too: has runtime \d, \w, [:posix:], ...
* The non-locale ones are resolved at compile-time */
#define ANYOF_CLASS 0x08
@@ -350,9 +362,6 @@ struct regnode_charclass_class {
/* Matches every code point 0x100 and above*/
#define ANYOF_UNICODE_ALL 0x40
-/* EOS used for regstclass only */
-#define ANYOF_EOS 0x80 /* Can match an empty string too */
-
#define ANYOF_FLAGS_ALL 0xff
/* Character classes for node->classflags of ANYOF */