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# 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 \s+ TYPE, arg-description [flags] [num-args] [longjump-len] ; 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
END END, no ; End of program.
SUCCEED END, no ; Return from a subroutine, basically.
-#* Anchors:
-
-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
+#* 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.
-#* [Special] alternatives:
+#* 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 ; Like BOUNDA for non-utf8, otherwise match "" between any Unicode \w\W or \W\w
+BOUNDL BOUND, no ; Like BOUND/BOUNDU, but \w and \W are defined by current locale
+BOUNDU BOUND, no ; Match "" at any boundary of a given type using Unicode rules
+BOUNDA BOUND, no ; Match "" at any boundary between \w\W or \W\w, where \w is [_a-zA-Z0-9]
+# All NBOUND nodes are required by code in regexec.c to be greater than all BOUND ones
+NBOUND NBOUND, no ; Like NBOUNDA for non-utf8, otherwise match "" between any Unicode \w\w or \W\W
+NBOUNDL NBOUND, no ; Like NBOUND/NBOUNDU, but \w and \W are defined by current locale
+NBOUNDU NBOUND, no ; Match "" at any non-boundary of a given type using using Unicode rules
+NBOUNDA NBOUND, no ; Match "" betweeen any \w\w or \W\W, where \w is [_a-zA-Z0-9]
+#* [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 0 S ; Match character in (or not in) this class, folding is native charset for non-utf8.
-ALNUM ALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any alphanumeric character
-ALNUML ALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any alphanumeric char in locale
-NALNUM NALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any non-alphanumeric character
-NALNUML NALNUM, no 0 S ; Match any non-alphanumeric char in locale
-SPACE SPACE, no 0 S ; Match any whitespace character
-SPACEL SPACE, no 0 S ; Match any whitespace char in locale
-NSPACE NSPACE, no 0 S ; Match any non-whitespace character
-NSPACEL NSPACE, no 0 S ; Match any non-whitespace char in locale
-DIGIT DIGIT, no 0 S ; Match any numeric character
-DIGITL DIGIT, no ; Match any numeric character in locale
-NDIGIT NDIGIT, no 0 S ; Match any non-numeric character
-NDIGITL NDIGIT, no ; Match any non-numeric character in locale
+ANYOF ANYOF, sv 1 S ; Match character in (or not in) this class, single char match only
+ANYOFL ANYOF, sv 1 S ; Like ANYOF, but /l is in effect
+
+#* 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 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...
-#*Back pointer
-
-# BACK Normal "next" pointers all implicitly point forward; BACK
-# exists to make loop structures possible.
-# not used
-BACK BACK, no 0 V ; Match "", "next" ptr points backward.
-
#*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 string, folded, native charset semantics for non-utf8 (prec. by length).
-EXACTFL EXACT, str ; Match this string, folded in locale (w/len).
+EXACTL EXACT, str ; Like EXACT, but /l is in effect.
+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).
+
+# End of important relative ordering.
+
+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).
+EXACTFLU8 EXACT, str ; Rare cirucmstances: like EXACTFU, but is under /l, UTF-8, folded, and everything in it is above 255.
+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
+#*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 using BACK. Simple cases (one character
-# per match) are implemented with STAR and PLUS for speed
-# and to minimize recursive plunges.
-#
+#* 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.
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
+#*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,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 semantics for non-utf8
+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 preceeded by switcher .
+IFTHEN BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; Switch, should be preceded by switcher.
GROUPP GROUPP, num 1 ; Whether the group matched.
-#*Support for long RE
-
-LONGJMP LONGJMP, off 1 . 1 ; Jump far away.
-BRANCHJ BRANCHJ, off 1 V 1 ; BRANCH with long offset.
#*The heavy worker
-EVAL EVAL, evl 1 ; Execute some Perl code.
+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
+#*This is not used yet
RENUM BRANCHJ, off 1 . 1 ; Group with independently numbered parens.
#*Trie Related
-# 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
+#* 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[LU]?)? at once. flags==type
+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.
GOSUB GOSUB, num/ofs 2L ; recurse to paren arg1 at (signed) ofs arg2
GOSTART GOSTART, no ; recurse to start of pattern
-#*Named 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 semantics for non-utf8
-NREFFL REF, no-sv 1 V ; 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.
-#*Bactracking Verbs
+#*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.
#*New charclass like patterns
LNBREAK LNBREAK, none ; generic newline pattern
-VERTWS VERTWS, none 0 S ; vertical whitespace (Perl 6)
-NVERTWS NVERTWS, none 0 S ; not vertical whitespace (Perl 6)
-HORIZWS HORIZWS, none 0 S ; horizontal whitespace (Perl 6)
-NHORIZWS NHORIZWS, none 0 S ; not horizontal whitespace (Perl 6)
-
-FOLDCHAR FOLDCHAR, codepoint 1 ; codepoint with tricky case folding properties.
-EXACTFU EXACT, str ; Match this string, folded, Unicode semantics for non-utf8 (prec. by length).
-
-# These 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 semantics for non-utf8
-NREFFU REF, num 1 V ; Match already matched string, folded using unicode semantics for non-utf8
-
# 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
+#* 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".
+#* 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.
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# Format for second section:
-# REGOP \t typelist [ \t typelist] [# Comment]
+# REGOP \t typelist [ \t typelist]
# typelist= namelist
# = namelist:FAIL
# = name:count