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Subject: Re: [PHP-DEV] Add support for PCRE marks
From: christopher.jones@oracle.com (Christopher Jones)



On 02/28/2014 12:37 PM, Nikita Popov wrote:
> Hi internals!
>
> I wrote a patch to expose PCRE mark information in PHP, see
> https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/609/files. The last passed *MARK will
> be added to the $matches array under key "MARK". If you don't use marks
> everything stays exactly the same.
>
> Does anyone have a problem with exposing it in this way?
>
> In this context, would there be a problem with increasing the minimum
> required PCRE version (for builds against an external library) from 6.6 to
> 8.10 (the current, bundled version is 8.34)? That would avoid adding
> #ifdefs for this code. Is there some particular reason for 6.6 here?
>
> Thanks,
> Nikita
>

If I read my RPMs correctly, the PCRE version on Oracle Linux 5 (which
is equivalent to RHEL 5) is 6.6.

Oracle Linux 6 has PCRE 7.8.

Chris

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