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9ef589d8 1/* $RCSfile: regcomp.h,v $$Revision: 4.0.1.1 $$Date: 91/06/07 11:49:40 $
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2 *
3 * $Log: regcomp.h,v $
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4 * Revision 4.0.1.1 91/06/07 11:49:40 lwall
5 * patch4: no change
6 *
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7 * Revision 4.0 91/03/20 01:39:09 lwall
8 * 4.0 baseline.
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9 *
10 */
11
12/*
13 * The "internal use only" fields in regexp.h are present to pass info from
14 * compile to execute that permits the execute phase to run lots faster on
15 * simple cases. They are:
16 *
17 * regstart str that must begin a match; Nullch if none obvious
18 * reganch is the match anchored (at beginning-of-line only)?
19 * regmust string (pointer into program) that match must include, or NULL
20 * [regmust changed to STR* for bminstr()--law]
21 * regmlen length of regmust string
22 * [regmlen not used currently]
23 *
24 * Regstart and reganch permit very fast decisions on suitable starting points
25 * for a match, cutting down the work a lot. Regmust permits fast rejection
26 * of lines that cannot possibly match. The regmust tests are costly enough
27 * that regcomp() supplies a regmust only if the r.e. contains something
28 * potentially expensive (at present, the only such thing detected is * or +
29 * at the start of the r.e., which can involve a lot of backup). Regmlen is
30 * supplied because the test in regexec() needs it and regcomp() is computing
31 * it anyway.
32 * [regmust is now supplied always. The tests that use regmust have a
33 * heuristic that disables the test if it usually matches.]
34 *
35 * [In fact, we now use regmust in many cases to locate where the search
36 * starts in the string, so if regback is >= 0, the regmust search is never
37 * wasted effort. The regback variable says how many characters back from
38 * where regmust matched is the earliest possible start of the match.
39 * For instance, /[a-z].foo/ has a regmust of 'foo' and a regback of 2.]
40 */
41
42/*
43 * Structure for regexp "program". This is essentially a linear encoding
44 * of a nondeterministic finite-state machine (aka syntax charts or
45 * "railroad normal form" in parsing technology). Each node is an opcode
46 * plus a "next" pointer, possibly plus an operand. "Next" pointers of
47 * all nodes except BRANCH implement concatenation; a "next" pointer with
48 * a BRANCH on both ends of it is connecting two alternatives. (Here we
49 * have one of the subtle syntax dependencies: an individual BRANCH (as
50 * opposed to a collection of them) is never concatenated with anything
51 * because of operator precedence.) The operand of some types of node is
52 * a literal string; for others, it is a node leading into a sub-FSM. In
53 * particular, the operand of a BRANCH node is the first node of the branch.
54 * (NB this is *not* a tree structure: the tail of the branch connects
55 * to the thing following the set of BRANCHes.) The opcodes are:
56 */
57
58/* definition number opnd? meaning */
59#define END 0 /* no End of program. */
60#define BOL 1 /* no Match "" at beginning of line. */
61#define EOL 2 /* no Match "" at end of line. */
62#define ANY 3 /* no Match any one character. */
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63#define ANYOF 4 /* str Match character in (or not in) this class. */
64#define CURLY 5 /* str Match this simple thing {n,m} times. */
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65#define BRANCH 6 /* node Match this alternative, or the next... */
66#define BACK 7 /* no Match "", "next" ptr points backward. */
67#define EXACTLY 8 /* str Match this string (preceded by length). */
68#define NOTHING 9 /* no Match empty string. */
69#define STAR 10 /* node Match this (simple) thing 0 or more times. */
70#define PLUS 11 /* node Match this (simple) thing 1 or more times. */
71#define ALNUM 12 /* no Match any alphanumeric character */
72#define NALNUM 13 /* no Match any non-alphanumeric character */
73#define BOUND 14 /* no Match "" at any word boundary */
74#define NBOUND 15 /* no Match "" at any word non-boundary */
75#define SPACE 16 /* no Match any whitespace character */
76#define NSPACE 17 /* no Match any non-whitespace character */
77#define DIGIT 18 /* no Match any numeric character */
78#define NDIGIT 19 /* no Match any non-numeric character */
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79#define REF 20 /* num Match some already matched string */
80#define OPEN 21 /* num Mark this point in input as start of #n. */
81#define CLOSE 22 /* num Analogous to OPEN. */
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82
83/*
84 * Opcode notes:
85 *
86 * BRANCH The set of branches constituting a single choice are hooked
87 * together with their "next" pointers, since precedence prevents
88 * anything being concatenated to any individual branch. The
89 * "next" pointer of the last BRANCH in a choice points to the
90 * thing following the whole choice. This is also where the
91 * final "next" pointer of each individual branch points; each
92 * branch starts with the operand node of a BRANCH node.
93 *
94 * BACK Normal "next" pointers all implicitly point forward; BACK
95 * exists to make loop structures possible.
96 *
97 * STAR,PLUS '?', and complex '*' and '+', are implemented as circular
98 * BRANCH structures using BACK. Simple cases (one character
99 * per match) are implemented with STAR and PLUS for speed
100 * and to minimize recursive plunges.
101 *
102 * OPEN,CLOSE ...are numbered at compile time.
103 */
104
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105#ifndef DOINIT
106extern char regarglen[];
107#else
108char regarglen[] = {0,0,0,0,0,4,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,2,2,2};
109#endif
110
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111/* The following have no fixed length. */
112#ifndef DOINIT
113extern char varies[];
114#else
fe14fcc3 115char varies[] = {BRANCH,BACK,STAR,PLUS,CURLY,REF,0};
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116#endif
117
118/* The following always have a length of 1. */
119#ifndef DOINIT
120extern char simple[];
121#else
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123#endif
124
125EXT char regdummy;
126
127/*
128 * A node is one char of opcode followed by two chars of "next" pointer.
129 * "Next" pointers are stored as two 8-bit pieces, high order first. The
130 * value is a positive offset from the opcode of the node containing it.
131 * An operand, if any, simply follows the node. (Note that much of the
132 * code generation knows about this implicit relationship.)
133 *
134 * Using two bytes for the "next" pointer is vast overkill for most things,
135 * but allows patterns to get big without disasters.
136 *
137 * [If REGALIGN is defined, the "next" pointer is always aligned on an even
138 * boundary, and reads the offset directly as a short. Also, there is no
139 * special test to reverse the sign of BACK pointers since the offset is
140 * stored negative.]
141 */
142
143#ifndef gould
144#ifndef cray
34de22dd 145#ifndef eta10
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146#define REGALIGN
147#endif
148#endif
34de22dd 149#endif
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150
151#define OP(p) (*(p))
152
153#ifndef lint
154#ifdef REGALIGN
155#define NEXT(p) (*(short*)(p+1))
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156#define ARG1(p) (*(unsigned short*)(p+3))
157#define ARG2(p) (*(unsigned short*)(p+5))
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158#else
159#define NEXT(p) (((*((p)+1)&0377)<<8) + (*((p)+2)&0377))
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160#define ARG1(p) (((*((p)+3)&0377)<<8) + (*((p)+4)&0377))
161#define ARG2(p) (((*((p)+5)&0377)<<8) + (*((p)+6)&0377))
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162#endif
163#else /* lint */
164#define NEXT(p) 0
165#endif /* lint */
166
167#define OPERAND(p) ((p) + 3)
168
169#ifdef REGALIGN
170#define NEXTOPER(p) ((p) + 4)
171#else
172#define NEXTOPER(p) ((p) + 3)
173#endif
174
175#define MAGIC 0234
176
177/*
178 * Utility definitions.
179 */
180#ifndef lint
181#ifndef CHARBITS
182#define UCHARAT(p) ((int)*(unsigned char *)(p))
183#else
184#define UCHARAT(p) ((int)*(p)&CHARBITS)
185#endif
186#else /* lint */
187#define UCHARAT(p) regdummy
188#endif /* lint */
189
190#define FAIL(m) fatal("/%s/: %s",regprecomp,m)
191
192char *regnext();
193#ifdef DEBUGGING
194void regdump();
195char *regprop();
196#endif
197