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| author | Ivo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org> | 2014-12-06 18:58:19 +0000 |
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| committer | Ivo De Decker <ivodd@debian.org> | 2014-12-06 18:58:19 +0000 |
| commit | dd986e8b547c0dde924c4b566ad0894ad4f1beb9 (patch) | |
| tree | a87ee49df2a732f2be8d1b3c9e46a341e6fb8698 /doc/pcre_maketables.3 | |
pcre3 (2:8.35-3.3) unstable; urgency=medium
* Non-maintainer upload.
* Upstream patch for heap buffer overflow, CVE-2014-8964, taken from
1:8.36-1 (Closes: #770478)
Thanks to Salvatore Bonaccorso for the reminder.
# imported from the archive
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diff --git a/doc/pcre_maketables.3 b/doc/pcre_maketables.3 new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2c3d23 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/pcre_maketables.3 @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +.TH PCRE_MAKETABLES 3 "24 June 2012" "PCRE 8.30" +.SH NAME +PCRE - Perl-compatible regular expressions +.SH SYNOPSIS +.rs +.sp +.B #include <pcre.h> +.PP +.SM +.B const unsigned char *pcre_maketables(void); +.PP +.B const unsigned char *pcre16_maketables(void); +.PP +.B const unsigned char *pcre32_maketables(void); +. +.SH DESCRIPTION +.rs +.sp +This function builds a set of character tables for character values less than +256. These can be passed to \fBpcre[16|32]_compile()\fP to override PCRE's +internal, built-in tables (which were made by \fBpcre[16|32]_maketables()\fP when +PCRE was compiled). You might want to do this if you are using a non-standard +locale. The function yields a pointer to the tables. +.P +There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the +.\" HREF +\fBpcreapi\fP +.\" +page and a description of the POSIX API in the +.\" HREF +\fBpcreposix\fP +.\" +page. |