dfa.h revision 53451
1/* dfa.h - declarations for GNU deterministic regexp compiler
2   Copyright (C) 1988 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3
4   This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
5   it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6   the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
7   any later version.
8
9   This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10   but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11   MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
12   GNU General Public License for more details.
13
14   You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
15   along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
16   Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.  */
17
18/* Written June, 1988 by Mike Haertel */
19
20/* FIXME:
21   2.  We should not export so much of the DFA internals.
22   In addition to clobbering modularity, we eat up valuable
23   name space. */
24
25/* Number of bits in an unsigned char. */
26#define CHARBITS 8
27
28/* First integer value that is greater than any character code. */
29#define NOTCHAR (1 << CHARBITS)
30
31/* INTBITS need not be exact, just a lower bound. */
32#define INTBITS (CHARBITS * sizeof (int))
33
34/* Number of ints required to hold a bit for every character. */
35#define CHARCLASS_INTS ((NOTCHAR + INTBITS - 1) / INTBITS)
36
37/* Sets of unsigned characters are stored as bit vectors in arrays of ints. */
38typedef int charclass[CHARCLASS_INTS];
39
40/* The regexp is parsed into an array of tokens in postfix form.  Some tokens
41   are operators and others are terminal symbols.  Most (but not all) of these
42   codes are returned by the lexical analyzer. */
43
44typedef enum
45{
46  END = -1,			/* END is a terminal symbol that matches the
47				   end of input; any value of END or less in
48				   the parse tree is such a symbol.  Accepting
49				   states of the DFA are those that would have
50				   a transition on END. */
51
52  /* Ordinary character values are terminal symbols that match themselves. */
53
54  EMPTY = NOTCHAR,		/* EMPTY is a terminal symbol that matches
55				   the empty string. */
56
57  BACKREF,			/* BACKREF is generated by \<digit>; it
58				   it not completely handled.  If the scanner
59				   detects a transition on backref, it returns
60				   a kind of "semi-success" indicating that
61				   the match will have to be verified with
62				   a backtracking matcher. */
63
64  BEGLINE,			/* BEGLINE is a terminal symbol that matches
65				   the empty string if it is at the beginning
66				   of a line. */
67
68  ENDLINE,			/* ENDLINE is a terminal symbol that matches
69				   the empty string if it is at the end of
70				   a line. */
71
72  BEGWORD,			/* BEGWORD is a terminal symbol that matches
73				   the empty string if it is at the beginning
74				   of a word. */
75
76  ENDWORD,			/* ENDWORD is a terminal symbol that matches
77				   the empty string if it is at the end of
78				   a word. */
79
80  LIMWORD,			/* LIMWORD is a terminal symbol that matches
81				   the empty string if it is at the beginning
82				   or the end of a word. */
83
84  NOTLIMWORD,			/* NOTLIMWORD is a terminal symbol that
85				   matches the empty string if it is not at
86				   the beginning or end of a word. */
87
88  QMARK,			/* QMARK is an operator of one argument that
89				   matches zero or one occurences of its
90				   argument. */
91
92  STAR,				/* STAR is an operator of one argument that
93				   matches the Kleene closure (zero or more
94				   occurrences) of its argument. */
95
96  PLUS,				/* PLUS is an operator of one argument that
97				   matches the positive closure (one or more
98				   occurrences) of its argument. */
99
100  REPMN,			/* REPMN is a lexical token corresponding
101				   to the {m,n} construct.  REPMN never
102				   appears in the compiled token vector. */
103
104  CAT,				/* CAT is an operator of two arguments that
105				   matches the concatenation of its
106				   arguments.  CAT is never returned by the
107				   lexical analyzer. */
108
109  OR,				/* OR is an operator of two arguments that
110				   matches either of its arguments. */
111
112  ORTOP,			/* OR at the toplevel in the parse tree.
113				   This is used for a boyer-moore heuristic. */
114
115  LPAREN,			/* LPAREN never appears in the parse tree,
116				   it is only a lexeme. */
117
118  RPAREN,			/* RPAREN never appears in the parse tree. */
119
120  CSET				/* CSET and (and any value greater) is a
121				   terminal symbol that matches any of a
122				   class of characters. */
123} token;
124
125/* Sets are stored in an array in the compiled dfa; the index of the
126   array corresponding to a given set token is given by SET_INDEX(t). */
127#define SET_INDEX(t) ((t) - CSET)
128
129/* Sometimes characters can only be matched depending on the surrounding
130   context.  Such context decisions depend on what the previous character
131   was, and the value of the current (lookahead) character.  Context
132   dependent constraints are encoded as 8 bit integers.  Each bit that
133   is set indicates that the constraint succeeds in the corresponding
134   context.
135
136   bit 7 - previous and current are newlines
137   bit 6 - previous was newline, current isn't
138   bit 5 - previous wasn't newline, current is
139   bit 4 - neither previous nor current is a newline
140   bit 3 - previous and current are word-constituents
141   bit 2 - previous was word-constituent, current isn't
142   bit 1 - previous wasn't word-constituent, current is
143   bit 0 - neither previous nor current is word-constituent
144
145   Word-constituent characters are those that satisfy isalnum().
146
147   The macro SUCCEEDS_IN_CONTEXT determines whether a a given constraint
148   succeeds in a particular context.  Prevn is true if the previous character
149   was a newline, currn is true if the lookahead character is a newline.
150   Prevl and currl similarly depend upon whether the previous and current
151   characters are word-constituent letters. */
152#define MATCHES_NEWLINE_CONTEXT(constraint, prevn, currn) \
153  ((constraint) & 1 << (((prevn) ? 2 : 0) + ((currn) ? 1 : 0) + 4))
154#define MATCHES_LETTER_CONTEXT(constraint, prevl, currl) \
155  ((constraint) & 1 << (((prevl) ? 2 : 0) + ((currl) ? 1 : 0)))
156#define SUCCEEDS_IN_CONTEXT(constraint, prevn, currn, prevl, currl) \
157  (MATCHES_NEWLINE_CONTEXT(constraint, prevn, currn)		     \
158   && MATCHES_LETTER_CONTEXT(constraint, prevl, currl))
159
160/* The following macros give information about what a constraint depends on. */
161#define PREV_NEWLINE_DEPENDENT(constraint) \
162  (((constraint) & 0xc0) >> 2 != ((constraint) & 0x30))
163#define PREV_LETTER_DEPENDENT(constraint) \
164  (((constraint) & 0x0c) >> 2 != ((constraint) & 0x03))
165
166/* Tokens that match the empty string subject to some constraint actually
167   work by applying that constraint to determine what may follow them,
168   taking into account what has gone before.  The following values are
169   the constraints corresponding to the special tokens previously defined. */
170#define NO_CONSTRAINT 0xff
171#define BEGLINE_CONSTRAINT 0xcf
172#define ENDLINE_CONSTRAINT 0xaf
173#define BEGWORD_CONSTRAINT 0xf2
174#define ENDWORD_CONSTRAINT 0xf4
175#define LIMWORD_CONSTRAINT 0xf6
176#define NOTLIMWORD_CONSTRAINT 0xf9
177
178/* States of the recognizer correspond to sets of positions in the parse
179   tree, together with the constraints under which they may be matched.
180   So a position is encoded as an index into the parse tree together with
181   a constraint. */
182typedef struct
183{
184  unsigned index;		/* Index into the parse array. */
185  unsigned constraint;		/* Constraint for matching this position. */
186} position;
187
188/* Sets of positions are stored as arrays. */
189typedef struct
190{
191  position *elems;		/* Elements of this position set. */
192  int nelem;			/* Number of elements in this set. */
193} position_set;
194
195/* A state of the dfa consists of a set of positions, some flags,
196   and the token value of the lowest-numbered position of the state that
197   contains an END token. */
198typedef struct
199{
200  int hash;			/* Hash of the positions of this state. */
201  position_set elems;		/* Positions this state could match. */
202  char newline;			/* True if previous state matched newline. */
203  char letter;			/* True if previous state matched a letter. */
204  char backref;			/* True if this state matches a \<digit>. */
205  unsigned char constraint;	/* Constraint for this state to accept. */
206  int first_end;		/* Token value of the first END in elems. */
207} dfa_state;
208
209/* Element of a list of strings, at least one of which is known to
210   appear in any R.E. matching the DFA. */
211struct dfamust
212{
213  int exact;
214  char *must;
215  struct dfamust *next;
216};
217
218/* A compiled regular expression. */
219struct dfa
220{
221  /* Stuff built by the scanner. */
222  charclass *charclasses;	/* Array of character sets for CSET tokens. */
223  int cindex;			/* Index for adding new charclasses. */
224  int calloc;			/* Number of charclasses currently allocated. */
225
226  /* Stuff built by the parser. */
227  token *tokens;		/* Postfix parse array. */
228  int tindex;			/* Index for adding new tokens. */
229  int talloc;			/* Number of tokens currently allocated. */
230  int depth;			/* Depth required of an evaluation stack
231				   used for depth-first traversal of the
232				   parse tree. */
233  int nleaves;			/* Number of leaves on the parse tree. */
234  int nregexps;			/* Count of parallel regexps being built
235				   with dfaparse(). */
236
237  /* Stuff owned by the state builder. */
238  dfa_state *states;		/* States of the dfa. */
239  int sindex;			/* Index for adding new states. */
240  int salloc;			/* Number of states currently allocated. */
241
242  /* Stuff built by the structure analyzer. */
243  position_set *follows;	/* Array of follow sets, indexed by position
244				   index.  The follow of a position is the set
245				   of positions containing characters that
246				   could conceivably follow a character
247				   matching the given position in a string
248				   matching the regexp.  Allocated to the
249				   maximum possible position index. */
250  int searchflag;		/* True if we are supposed to build a searching
251				   as opposed to an exact matcher.  A searching
252				   matcher finds the first and shortest string
253				   matching a regexp anywhere in the buffer,
254				   whereas an exact matcher finds the longest
255				   string matching, but anchored to the
256				   beginning of the buffer. */
257
258  /* Stuff owned by the executor. */
259  int tralloc;			/* Number of transition tables that have
260				   slots so far. */
261  int trcount;			/* Number of transition tables that have
262				   actually been built. */
263  int **trans;			/* Transition tables for states that can
264				   never accept.  If the transitions for a
265				   state have not yet been computed, or the
266				   state could possibly accept, its entry in
267				   this table is NULL. */
268  int **realtrans;		/* Trans always points to realtrans + 1; this
269				   is so trans[-1] can contain NULL. */
270  int **fails;			/* Transition tables after failing to accept
271				   on a state that potentially could do so. */
272  int *success;			/* Table of acceptance conditions used in
273				   dfaexec and computed in build_state. */
274  int *newlines;		/* Transitions on newlines.  The entry for a
275				   newline in any transition table is always
276				   -1 so we can count lines without wasting
277				   too many cycles.  The transition for a
278				   newline is stored separately and handled
279				   as a special case.  Newline is also used
280				   as a sentinel at the end of the buffer. */
281  struct dfamust *musts;	/* List of strings, at least one of which
282				   is known to appear in any r.e. matching
283				   the dfa. */
284};
285
286/* Some macros for user access to dfa internals. */
287
288/* ACCEPTING returns true if s could possibly be an accepting state of r. */
289#define ACCEPTING(s, r) ((r).states[s].constraint)
290
291/* ACCEPTS_IN_CONTEXT returns true if the given state accepts in the
292   specified context. */
293#define ACCEPTS_IN_CONTEXT(prevn, currn, prevl, currl, state, dfa) \
294  SUCCEEDS_IN_CONTEXT((dfa).states[state].constraint,		   \
295		       prevn, currn, prevl, currl)
296
297/* FIRST_MATCHING_REGEXP returns the index number of the first of parallel
298   regexps that a given state could accept.  Parallel regexps are numbered
299   starting at 1. */
300#define FIRST_MATCHING_REGEXP(state, dfa) (-(dfa).states[state].first_end)
301
302/* Entry points. */
303
304#if __STDC__
305
306/* dfasyntax() takes two arguments; the first sets the syntax bits described
307   earlier in this file, and the second sets the case-folding flag. */
308extern void dfasyntax(int, int);
309
310/* Compile the given string of the given length into the given struct dfa.
311   Final argument is a flag specifying whether to build a searching or an
312   exact matcher. */
313extern void dfacomp(char *, size_t, struct dfa *, int);
314
315/* Execute the given struct dfa on the buffer of characters.  The
316   first char * points to the beginning, and the second points to the
317   first character after the end of the buffer, which must be a writable
318   place so a sentinel end-of-buffer marker can be stored there.  The
319   second-to-last argument is a flag telling whether to allow newlines to
320   be part of a string matching the regexp.  The next-to-last argument,
321   if non-NULL, points to a place to increment every time we see a
322   newline.  The final argument, if non-NULL, points to a flag that will
323   be set if further examination by a backtracking matcher is needed in
324   order to verify backreferencing; otherwise the flag will be cleared.
325   Returns NULL if no match is found, or a pointer to the first
326   character after the first & shortest matching string in the buffer. */
327extern char *dfaexec(struct dfa *, char *, char *, int, int *, int *);
328
329/* Free the storage held by the components of a struct dfa. */
330extern void dfafree(struct dfa *);
331
332/* Entry points for people who know what they're doing. */
333
334/* Initialize the components of a struct dfa. */
335extern void dfainit(struct dfa *);
336
337/* Incrementally parse a string of given length into a struct dfa. */
338extern void dfaparse(char *, size_t, struct dfa *);
339
340/* Analyze a parsed regexp; second argument tells whether to build a searching
341   or an exact matcher. */
342extern void dfaanalyze(struct dfa *, int);
343
344/* Compute, for each possible character, the transitions out of a given
345   state, storing them in an array of integers. */
346extern void dfastate(int, struct dfa *, int []);
347
348/* Error handling. */
349
350/* dfaerror() is called by the regexp routines whenever an error occurs.  It
351   takes a single argument, a NUL-terminated string describing the error.
352   The default dfaerror() prints the error message to stderr and exits.
353   The user can provide a different dfafree() if so desired. */
354extern void dfaerror(char *);
355
356#else /* ! __STDC__ */
357extern void dfasyntax(), dfacomp(), dfafree(), dfainit(), dfaparse();
358extern void dfaanalyze(), dfastate(), dfaerror();
359extern char *dfaexec();
360#endif /* ! __STDC__ */
361