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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1174 --- Comment #1 from Philip Hazel <[email protected]> 2011-11-06 17:03:53 --- This is a good point, and I should probably have sorted this out a very long time ago. When I was implementing PCRE as something Exim could use, I didn't think about threads (or many other things!) at all. The early releases made use of a number of static variables. When I changed this (release 0.94, September 1997) I didn't think about library use, and I left the static variables that contained the function pointers. Sigh. I wish my foresight was as good as my hindsight. I will think about how best to handle this. There will have to be a new function called pcre_compile3() (we already have pcre_compile2) and I am leaning towards a single argument pointing to a structure that contains pointers to all the functions. Rather than add this to the extra data for pcre_exec, it might be best to invent pcre_exec2() with an extra argument. Other functions are also affected. I won't actually be doing anything for several weeks at least (for various reasons), but this will allow for some thought about how best to sort this out. -- Configure bugmail: http://bugs.exim.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
