#
# File has two sections, divided by a line of dashes '-'.
#
-# Empty rows after #-comment are removed from input are ignored
+# Lines beginning with # are ignored, except for those that start with #*
+# which are included in pod/perldebguts.pod. # within a line may be part
+# of a description.
#
-# First section is for regops, second sectionis for regmatch-states
+# First section is for regops, second section is for regmatch-states
#
# Note that the order in this file is important.
#
# Format for first section:
-# NAME \t TYPE, arg-description [num-args] [longjump-len] \t DESCRIPTION
+# NAME \s+ TYPE, arg-description [num-args] [flags] [longjump-len] ; DESCRIPTION
+# flag <S> means is REGNODE_SIMPLE; flag <V> means is REGNODE_VARIES
#
#
# run perl regen.pl after editing this file
-#* Exit points (0,1)
-
-END END, no End of program.
-SUCCEED END, no Return from a subroutine, basically.
-
-#* Anchors: (2..13)
-
-BOL BOL, no Match "" at beginning of line.
-MBOL BOL, no Same, assuming multiline.
-SBOL BOL, no Same, assuming singleline.
-EOS EOL, no Match "" at end of string.
-EOL EOL, no Match "" at end of line.
-MEOL EOL, no Same, assuming multiline.
-SEOL EOL, no Same, assuming singleline.
-BOUND BOUND, no Match "" at any word boundary
-BOUNDL BOUND, no Match "" at any word boundary
-NBOUND NBOUND, no Match "" at any word non-boundary
-NBOUNDL NBOUND, no Match "" at any word non-boundary
-GPOS GPOS, no Matches where last m//g left off.
-
-#* [Special] alternatives: (14..30)
-
-REG_ANY REG_ANY, no Match any one character (except newline).
-SANY REG_ANY, no Match any one character.
-CANY REG_ANY, no Match any one byte.
-ANYOF ANYOF, sv Match character in (or not in) this class.
-ALNUM ALNUM, no Match any alphanumeric character
-ALNUML ALNUM, no Match any alphanumeric char in locale
-NALNUM NALNUM, no Match any non-alphanumeric character
-NALNUML NALNUM, no Match any non-alphanumeric char in locale
-SPACE SPACE, no Match any whitespace character
-SPACEL SPACE, no Match any whitespace char in locale
-NSPACE NSPACE, no Match any non-whitespace character
-NSPACEL NSPACE, no Match any non-whitespace char in locale
-DIGIT DIGIT, no Match any numeric character
-DIGITL DIGIT, no Match any numeric character in locale
-NDIGIT NDIGIT, no Match any non-numeric character
-NDIGITL NDIGIT, no Match any non-numeric character in locale
-CLUMP CLUMP, no Match any combining character sequence
-
-#* Alternation (31)
-
-# BRANCH The set of branches constituting a single choice are hooked
-# together with their "next" pointers, since precedence prevents
-# anything being concatenated to any individual branch. The
-# "next" pointer of the last BRANCH in a choice points to the
-# thing following the whole choice. This is also where the
-# final "next" pointer of each individual branch points; each
-# branch starts with the operand node of a BRANCH node.
-#
-BRANCH BRANCH, node Match this alternative, or the next...
-
-#*Back pointer (32)
-
-# BACK Normal "next" pointers all implicitly point forward; BACK
-# exists to make loop structures possible.
-# not used
-BACK BACK, no Match "", "next" ptr points backward.
-
-#*Literals (33..35)
-
-EXACT EXACT, str Match this string (preceded by length).
-EXACTF EXACT, str Match this string, folded (prec. by length).
-EXACTFL EXACT, str Match this string, folded in locale (w/len).
-
-#*Do nothing types (36..37)
-
-NOTHING NOTHING,no Match empty string.
-# A variant of above which delimits a group, thus stops optimizations
-TAIL NOTHING,no Match empty string. Can jump here from outside.
-
-#*Loops (38..44)
-
-# STAR,PLUS '?', and complex '*' and '+', are implemented as circular
-# BRANCH structures using BACK. Simple cases (one character
-# per match) are implemented with STAR and PLUS for speed
-# and to minimize recursive plunges.
-#
-STAR STAR, node Match this (simple) thing 0 or more times.
-PLUS PLUS, node Match this (simple) thing 1 or more times.
-
-CURLY CURLY, sv 2 Match this simple thing {n,m} times.
-CURLYN CURLY, no 2 Capture next-after-this simple thing
-CURLYM CURLY, no 2 Capture this medium-complex thing {n,m} times.
-CURLYX CURLY, sv 2 Match this complex thing {n,m} times.
-
-# This terminator creates a loop structure for CURLYX
-WHILEM WHILEM, no Do curly processing and see if rest matches.
-
-#*Buffer related (45..49)
-
-# OPEN,CLOSE,GROUPP ...are numbered at compile time.
-OPEN OPEN, num 1 Mark this point in input as start of #n.
-CLOSE CLOSE, num 1 Analogous to OPEN.
+#* Exit points
+
+END END, no ; End of program.
+SUCCEED END, no ; Return from a subroutine, basically.
+
+#* Line Start Anchors:
+#Note flags field for SBOL indicates if it is a /^/ or a /\A/
+SBOL BOL, no ; Match "" at beginning of line: /^/, /\A/
+MBOL BOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline: /^/m
+
+#* Line End Anchors:
+SEOL EOL, no ; Match "" at end of line: /$/
+MEOL EOL, no ; Same, assuming multiline: /$/m
+EOS EOL, no ; Match "" at end of string: /\z/
+
+#* Match Start Anchors:
+GPOS GPOS, no ; Matches where last m//g left off.
+
+#* Word Boundary Opcodes:
+# The regops that have varieties that vary depending on the character set regex
+# modifiers have to ordered thusly: /d, /l, /u, /a, /aa. This is because code
+# in regcomp.c uses the enum value of the modifier as an offset from the /d
+# version. The complements must come after the non-complements.
+# BOUND, POSIX and their complements are affected, as well as EXACTF.
+BOUND BOUND, no ; Match "" at any word boundary using native charset rules for non-utf8
+BOUNDL BOUND, no ; Match "" at any locale word boundary
+BOUNDU BOUND, no ; Match "" at any word boundary using Unicode rules
+BOUNDA BOUND, no ; Match "" at any word boundary using ASCII rules
+# All NBOUND nodes are required by code in regexec.c to be greater than all BOUND ones
+NBOUND NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any word non-boundary using native charset rules for non-utf8
+NBOUNDL NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any locale word non-boundary
+NBOUNDU NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any word non-boundary using Unicode rules
+NBOUNDA NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any word non-boundary using ASCII rules
+
+#* [Special] alternatives:
+REG_ANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character (except newline).
+SANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one character.
+CANY REG_ANY, no 0 S ; Match any one byte.
+ANYOF ANYOF, sv 1 S ; Match character in (or not in) this class, single char match only
+
+#* POSIX Character Classes:
+# Order of the below is important. See ordering comment above.
+POSIXD POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /d; the FLAGS field gives which one
+POSIXL POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /l; the FLAGS field gives which one
+POSIXU POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /u; the FLAGS field gives which one
+POSIXA POSIXD, none 0 S ; Some [[:class:]] under /a; the FLAGS field gives which one
+NPOSIXD NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXD, [[:^class:]]
+NPOSIXL NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXL, [[:^class:]]
+NPOSIXU NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXU, [[:^class:]]
+NPOSIXA NPOSIXD, none 0 S ; complement of POSIXA, [[:^class:]]
+# End of order is important
+
+CLUMP CLUMP, no 0 V ; Match any extended grapheme cluster sequence
+
+#* Alternation
+
+#* BRANCH The set of branches constituting a single choice are
+#* hooked together with their "next" pointers, since
+#* precedence prevents anything being concatenated to
+#* any individual branch. The "next" pointer of the last
+#* BRANCH in a choice points to the thing following the
+#* whole choice. This is also where the final "next"
+#* pointer of each individual branch points; each branch
+#* starts with the operand node of a BRANCH node.
+#*
+BRANCH BRANCH, node 0 V ; Match this alternative, or the next...
+
+#*Literals
+# NOTE: the relative ordering of these types is important do not change it
+
+EXACT EXACT, str ; Match this string (preceded by length).
+EXACTF EXACT, str ; Match this non-UTF-8 string (not guaranteed to be folded) using /id rules (w/len).
+EXACTFL EXACT, str ; Match this string (not guaranteed to be folded) using /il rules (w/len).
+EXACTFU EXACT, str ; Match this string (folded iff in UTF-8, length in folding doesn't change if not in UTF-8) using /iu rules (w/len).
+EXACTFA EXACT, str ; Match this string (not guaranteed to be folded) using /iaa rules (w/len).
+EXACTFU_SS EXACT, str ; Match this string (folded iff in UTF-8, length in folding may change even if not in UTF-8) using /iu rules (w/len).
+EXACTFA_NO_TRIE EXACT, str ; Match this string (which is not trie-able; not guaranteed to be folded) using /iaa rules (w/len).
+
+#*Do nothing types
+
+NOTHING NOTHING, no ; Match empty string.
+#*A variant of above which delimits a group, thus stops optimizations
+TAIL NOTHING, no ; Match empty string. Can jump here from outside.
+
+#*Loops
+
+#* STAR,PLUS '?', and complex '*' and '+', are implemented as
+#* circular BRANCH structures. Simple cases
+#* (one character per match) are implemented with STAR
+#* and PLUS for speed and to minimize recursive plunges.
+#*
+STAR STAR, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 0 or more times.
+PLUS PLUS, node 0 V ; Match this (simple) thing 1 or more times.
+
+CURLY CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this simple thing {n,m} times.
+CURLYN CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture next-after-this simple thing
+CURLYM CURLY, no 2 V ; Capture this medium-complex thing {n,m} times.
+CURLYX CURLY, sv 2 V ; Match this complex thing {n,m} times.
+
+#*This terminator creates a loop structure for CURLYX
+WHILEM WHILEM, no 0 V ; Do curly processing and see if rest matches.
+
+#*Buffer related
+
+#*OPEN,CLOSE,GROUPP ...are numbered at compile time.
+OPEN OPEN, num 1 ; Mark this point in input as start of #n.
+CLOSE CLOSE, num 1 ; Analogous to OPEN.
+
+REF REF, num 1 V ; Match some already matched string
+REFF REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using native charset rules for non-utf8
+REFFL REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded in loc.
+# N?REFF[AU] could have been implemented using the FLAGS field of the
+# regnode, but by having a separate node type, we can use the existing switch
+# statement to avoid some tests
+REFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode rules for non-utf8
+REFFA REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode rules for non-utf8, no mixing ASCII, non-ASCII
+
+#*Named references. Code in regcomp.c assumes that these all are after
+#*the numbered references
+NREF REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match some already matched string
+NREFF REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using native charset rules for non-utf8
+NREFFL REF, no-sv 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded in loc.
+NREFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode rules for non-utf8
+NREFFA REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode rules for non-utf8, no mixing ASCII, non-ASCII
+
+#*Support for long RE
+LONGJMP LONGJMP, off 1 . 1 ; Jump far away.
+BRANCHJ BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; BRANCH with long offset.
+
+#*Special Case Regops
+IFMATCH BRANCHJ, off 1 . 2 ; Succeeds if the following matches.
+UNLESSM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 2 ; Fails if the following matches.
+SUSPEND BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; "Independent" sub-RE.
+IFTHEN BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; Switch, should be preceded by switcher.
+GROUPP GROUPP, num 1 ; Whether the group matched.
+
+
+#*The heavy worker
+
+EVAL EVAL, evl/flags 2L ; Execute some Perl code.
+
+#*Modifiers
+
+MINMOD MINMOD, no ; Next operator is not greedy.
+LOGICAL LOGICAL, no ; Next opcode should set the flag only.
+
+#*This is not used yet
+RENUM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Group with independently numbered parens.
-REF REF, num 1 Match some already matched string
-REFF REF, num 1 Match already matched string, folded
-REFFL REF, num 1 Match already matched string, folded in loc.
+#*Trie Related
-#*Grouping assertions (50..54)
-
-IFMATCH BRANCHJ,off 1 2 Succeeds if the following matches.
-UNLESSM BRANCHJ,off 1 2 Fails if the following matches.
-SUSPEND BRANCHJ,off 1 1 "Independent" sub-RE.
-IFTHEN BRANCHJ,off 1 1 Switch, should be preceeded by switcher .
-GROUPP GROUPP, num 1 Whether the group matched.
-
-#*Support for long RE (55..56)
-
-LONGJMP LONGJMP,off 1 1 Jump far away.
-BRANCHJ BRANCHJ,off 1 1 BRANCH with long offset.
-
-#*The heavy worker (57..58)
-
-EVAL EVAL, evl 1 Execute some Perl code.
-
-#*Modifiers (59..60)
-
-MINMOD MINMOD, no Next operator is not greedy.
-LOGICAL LOGICAL,no Next opcode should set the flag only.
-
-# This is not used yet (61)
-RENUM BRANCHJ,off 1 1 Group with independently numbered parens.
-
-#*Trie Related (62..64)
-
-# Behave the same as A|LIST|OF|WORDS would. The '..C' variants have
-# inline charclass data (ascii only), the 'C' store it in the structure.
-# NOTE: the relative order of the TRIE-like regops is signifigant
-
-TRIE TRIE, trie 1 Match many EXACT(FL?)? at once. flags==type
-TRIEC TRIE,trie charclass Same as TRIE, but with embedded charclass data
+#* Behave the same as A|LIST|OF|WORDS would. The '..C' variants
+#* have inline charclass data (ascii only), the 'C' store it in the
+#* structure.
+# NOTE: the relative order of the TRIE-like regops is significant
+
+TRIE TRIE, trie 1 ; Match many EXACT(F[ALU]?)? at once. flags==type
+TRIEC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as TRIE, but with embedded charclass data
# For start classes, contains an added fail table.
-AHOCORASICK TRIE, trie 1 Aho Corasick stclass. flags==type
-AHOCORASICKC TRIE,trie charclass Same as AHOCORASICK, but with embedded charclass data
+AHOCORASICK TRIE, trie 1 ; Aho Corasick stclass. flags==type
+AHOCORASICKC TRIE,trie charclass ; Same as AHOCORASICK, but with embedded charclass data
-#*Regex Subroutines (65..66)
-GOSUB GOSUB, num/ofs 2L recurse to paren arg1 at (signed) ofs arg2
-GOSTART GOSTART, no recurse to start of pattern
+#*Regex Subroutines
+GOSUB GOSUB, num/ofs 2L ; recurse to paren arg1 at (signed) ofs arg2
+GOSTART GOSTART, no ; recurse to start of pattern
-#*Named references (67..69)
-NREF REF, no-sv 1 Match some already matched string
-NREFF REF, no-sv 1 Match already matched string, folded
-NREFFL REF, no-sv 1 Match already matched string, folded in loc.
+#*Special conditionals
+NGROUPP NGROUPP, no-sv 1 ; Whether the group matched.
+INSUBP INSUBP, num 1 ; Whether we are in a specific recurse.
+DEFINEP DEFINEP, none 1 ; Never execute directly.
-
-#*Special conditionals (70..72)
-NGROUPP NGROUPP, no-sv 1 Whether the group matched.
-INSUBP INSUBP, num 1 Whether we are in a specific recurse.
-DEFINEP DEFINEP, none 1 Never execute directly.
-
-#*Bactracking Verbs
-ENDLIKE ENDLIKE, none Used only for the type field of verbs
-OPFAIL ENDLIKE, none Same as (?!)
-ACCEPT ENDLIKE, parno 1 Accepts the current matched string.
+#*Backtracking Verbs
+ENDLIKE ENDLIKE, none ; Used only for the type field of verbs
+OPFAIL ENDLIKE, none ; Same as (?!)
+ACCEPT ENDLIKE, parno 1 ; Accepts the current matched string.
#*Verbs With Arguments
-VERB VERB, no-sv 1 Used only for the type field of verbs
-PRUNE VERB, no-sv 1 Pattern fails at this startpoint if no-backtracking through this
-MARKPOINT VERB, no-sv 1 Push the current location for rollback by cut.
-SKIP VERB, no-sv 1 On failure skip forward (to the mark) before retrying
-COMMIT VERB, no-sv 1 Pattern fails outright if backtracking through this
-CUTGROUP VERB, no-sv 1 On failure go to the next alternation in the group
+VERB VERB, no-sv 1 ; Used only for the type field of verbs
+PRUNE VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails at this startpoint if no-backtracking through this
+MARKPOINT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Push the current location for rollback by cut.
+SKIP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure skip forward (to the mark) before retrying
+COMMIT VERB, no-sv 1 ; Pattern fails outright if backtracking through this
+CUTGROUP VERB, no-sv 1 ; On failure go to the next alternation in the group
#*Control what to keep in $&.
-KEEPS KEEPS, no $& begins here.
+KEEPS KEEPS, no ; $& begins here.
#*New charclass like patterns
-LNBREAK LNBREAK, none generic newline pattern
-VERTWS VERTWS, none vertical whitespace (Perl 6)
-NVERTWS NVERTWS, none not vertical whitespace (Perl 6)
-HORIZWS HORIZWS, none horizontal whitespace (Perl 6)
-NHORIZWS NHORIZWS, none not horizontal whitespace (Perl 6)
-
-FOLDCHAR FOLDCHAR, codepoint 1 codepoint with tricky case folding properties.
+LNBREAK LNBREAK, none ; generic newline pattern
-# NEW STUFF ABOVE THIS LINE
+# NEW STUFF SOMEWHERE ABOVE THIS LINE
################################################################################
#*SPECIAL REGOPS
-# This is not really a node, but an optimized away piece of a "long" node.
-# To simplify debugging output, we mark it as if it were a node
-OPTIMIZED NOTHING,off Placeholder for dump.
+#* This is not really a node, but an optimized away piece of a "long"
+#* node. To simplify debugging output, we mark it as if it were a node
+OPTIMIZED NOTHING, off ; Placeholder for dump.
-# Special opcode with the property that no opcode in a compiled program
-# will ever be of this type. Thus it can be used as a flag value that
-# no other opcode has been seen. END is used similarly, in that an END
-# node cant be optimized. So END implies "unoptimizable" and PSEUDO mean
-# "not seen anything to optimize yet".
-PSEUDO PSEUDO,off Pseudo opcode for internal use.
+#* Special opcode with the property that no opcode in a compiled program
+#* will ever be of this type. Thus it can be used as a flag value that
+#* no other opcode has been seen. END is used similarly, in that an END
+#* node cant be optimized. So END implies "unoptimizable" and PSEUDO
+#* mean "not seen anything to optimize yet".
+PSEUDO PSEUDO, off ; Pseudo opcode for internal use.
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Format for second section:
-# REGOP \t typelist [ \t typelist] [# Comment]
+# REGOP \t typelist [ \t typelist]
# typelist= namelist
# = namelist:FAIL
# = name:count
# Anything below is a state
#
#
-TRIE next:FAIL
-EVAL AB:FAIL
-CURLYX end:FAIL
-WHILEM A_pre,A_min,A_max,B_min,B_max:FAIL
-BRANCH next:FAIL
-CURLYM A,B:FAIL
-IFMATCH A:FAIL
-CURLY B_min_known,B_min,B_max:FAIL
-COMMIT next:FAIL
-MARKPOINT next:FAIL
-SKIP next:FAIL
-CUTGROUP next:FAIL
-KEEPS next:FAIL
+TRIE next:FAIL
+EVAL AB:FAIL
+CURLYX end:FAIL
+WHILEM A_pre,A_min,A_max,B_min,B_max:FAIL
+BRANCH next:FAIL
+CURLYM A,B:FAIL
+IFMATCH A:FAIL
+CURLY B_min_known,B_min,B_max:FAIL
+COMMIT next:FAIL
+MARKPOINT next:FAIL
+SKIP next:FAIL
+CUTGROUP next:FAIL
+KEEPS next:FAIL