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first step cleaning up regexp recursion "return" logic
When we do a GOSUB/GOSTART we need to know where the recursion
"returns" to the previous position in the pattern. Currently
this is done by comparing cur_eval->u.eval.close_paren to the
the argument of CLOSE parens, and within END blocks (for GOSTART).
However, there is a problem. The state machinery for GOSUB/GOSTART
is shared with EVAL ( implementing /(??{ ... })/ ), which also sets
cur_eval->u.eval.close_paren to 0. This for instance breaks /(?(R)YES|NO)/
by making it return true within a /(??{ ... })/ when arguably it
shouldn't. It also is confusing.
So we change the meaning of close_paren so that 0 means "from EVAL",
and that otherwise the value is "+1", so 1 means GOSTART (trigger for
END), and 2 means "CLOSE1", etc. In order to make this transparent
this patch adds the EVAL_CLOSE_PAREN_IS( cur_eval, EXPR ) macro which
does the right thing:
( cur_eval && cur_eval->u.eval.close_paren &&
( ( cur_eval->u.eval.close_paren - 1 ) == EXPR ) )