# $NetBSD: varmod-subst-regex.mk,v 1.11 2023/12/18 11:13:51 rillig Exp $ # # Tests for the :C,from,to, variable modifier. # report unmatched subexpressions .MAKEFLAGS: -dL all: mod-regex-compile-error all: mod-regex-limits all: mod-regex-errors all: unmatched-subexpression # The expression expands to 4 words. Of these words, none matches # the regular expression "a b" since these words don't contain any # whitespace. .if ${:Ua b b c:C,a b,,} != "a b b c" . error .endif # Using the '1' modifier does not change anything. The '1' modifier just # means to apply at most 1 replacement in the whole expression. .if ${:Ua b b c:C,a b,,1} != "a b b c" . error .endif # The 'W' modifier treats the whole variable value as a single big word, # containing whitespace. This big word matches the regular expression, # therefore it gets replaced. Whitespace is preserved after replacing. .if ${:Ua b b c:C,a b,,W} != " b c" . error .endif # The 'g' modifier does not have any effect here since each of the words # contains the character 'b' a single time. .if ${:Ua b b c:C,b,,g} != "a c" . error .endif # The first :C modifier has the 'W' modifier, which makes the whole # expression a single word. The 'g' modifier then replaces all occurrences # of "1 2" with "___". The 'W' modifier only applies to this single :C # modifier. This is demonstrated by the :C modifier that follows. If the # 'W' modifier would be preserved, only a single underscore would have been # replaced with an 'x'. .if ${:U1 2 3 1 2 3:C,1 2,___,Wg:C,_,x,} != "x__ 3 x__ 3" . error .endif # The regular expression does not match in the first word. # It matches once in the second word, and the \0\0 doubles that word. # In the third word, the regular expression matches as early as possible, # and since the matches must not overlap, the next possible match would # start at the 6, but at that point, there is only one character left, # and that cannot match the regular expression "..". Therefore only the # "45" is doubled in the third word. .if ${:U1 23 456:C,..,\0\0,} != "1 2323 45456" . error .endif # The modifier '1' applies the replacement at most once, across the whole # expression value, no matter whether it is a single big word or many small # words. # # Up to 2020-08-28, the manual page said that the modifiers '1' and 'g' # were orthogonal, which was wrong. It doesn't make sense to specify both # 'g' and '1' at the same time. .if ${:U12345 12345:C,.,\0\0,1} != "112345 12345" . error .endif # A regular expression that matches the empty string applies before every # single character of the word. # XXX: Most other places where regular expression are used match at the end # of the string as well. .if ${:U1a2b3c:C,a*,*,g} != "*1**2*b*3*c" . error .endif # A dot in the regular expression matches any character, even a newline. # In most other contexts where regular expressions are used, a dot matches # any character except newline. In make, regcomp is called without # REG_NEWLINE, thus newline is an ordinary character. .if ${:U"${.newline}":C,.,.,g} != "..." . error .endif # Like the ':S' modifier, the ':C' modifier matches on an expression # that contains no words at all, but only if the regular expression matches an # empty string, for example, when the regular expression is anchored at the # beginning or the end of the word. An unanchored regular expression that # matches the empty string is uncommon in practice, as it would match before # each character of the word. .if "<${:U:S,,unanchored,}> <${:U:C,.?,unanchored,}>" != "<> " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,^,prefix,}> <${:U:C,^,prefix,}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,$,suffix,}> <${:U:C,$,suffix,}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,^$,whole,}> <${:U:C,^$,whole,}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,,unanchored,g}> <${:U:C,.?,unanchored,g}>" != "<> " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,^,prefix,g}> <${:U:C,^,prefix,g}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,$,suffix,g}> <${:U:C,$,suffix,g}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,^$,whole,g}> <${:U:C,^$,whole,g}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,,unanchored,W}> <${:U:C,.?,unanchored,W}>" != "<> " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,^,prefix,W}> <${:U:C,^,prefix,W}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,$,suffix,W}> <${:U:C,$,suffix,W}>" != " " . error .endif .if "<${:U:S,^$,whole,W}> <${:U:C,^$,whole,W}>" != " " . error .endif # Multiple asterisks form an invalid regular expression. This produces an # error message and (as of 2020-08-28) stops parsing in the middle of the # expression. The unparsed part of the expression is then copied # verbatim to the output, which is unexpected and can lead to strange shell # commands being run. mod-regex-compile-error: @echo $@: ${:Uword1 word2:C,****,____,g:C,word,____,:Q}. # These tests generate error messages but as of 2020-08-28 just continue # parsing and execution as if nothing bad had happened. mod-regex-limits: @echo $@:11-missing:${:U1 23 456:C,..,\1\1,:Q} @echo $@:11-ok:${:U1 23 456:C,(.).,\1\1,:Q} @echo $@:22-missing:${:U1 23 456:C,..,\2\2,:Q} @echo $@:22-missing:${:U1 23 456:C,(.).,\2\2,:Q} @echo $@:22-ok:${:U1 23 456:C,(.)(.),\2\2,:Q} # The :C modifier only handles single-digit capturing groups, # which is enough for all practical use cases. @echo $@:capture:${:UabcdefghijABCDEFGHIJrest:C,(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.)(.),\9\8\7\6\5\4\3\2\1\0\10\11\12,} mod-regex-errors: @echo $@: ${UNDEF:Uvalue:C,[,,} # If the replacement pattern produces a parse error because of an # unknown modifier, the parse error is ignored in ParseModifierPart # and the faulty expression expands to "". @echo $@: ${word:L:C,.*,x${:U:Z}y,W} # In regular expressions with alternatives, not all capturing groups are # always set; some may be missing. Make calls these "unmatched # subexpressions". # # Between var.c 1.16 from 1996-12-24 until before var.c 1.933 from 2021-06-21, # unmatched subexpressions produced an "error message" but did not have any # further effect since the "error handling" didn't influence the exit status. # # Before 2021-06-21 there was no way to turn off this warning, thus the # combination of alternative matches and capturing groups was seldom used, if # at all. # # Since var.c 1.933 from 2021-06-21, the error message is only printed in lint # mode (-dL), but not in default mode. # # As an alternative to the change from var.c 1.933 from 2021-06-21, a possible # mitigation would have been to add a new modifier 'U' to the already existing # '1Wg' modifiers of the ':C' modifier. That modifier could have been used in # the modifier ':C,(a.)|(b.),\1\2,U' to treat unmatched subexpressions as # empty. This approach would have created a syntactical ambiguity since the # modifiers ':S' and ':C' are open-ended (see mod-subst-chain), that is, they # do not need to be followed by a ':' to separate them from the next modifier. # Luckily the modifier :U does not make sense after :C, therefore this case # does not happen in practice. unmatched-subexpression: # In each of the following cases, if the regular expression matches at # all, the subexpression \1 matches as well. @echo $@.ok: ${:U1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34:C,1(.*),one\1,} # In the following cases: # * The subexpression \1 is only defined for 1 and 13. # * The subexpression \2 is only defined for 2 and 21. # * If the regular expression does not match at all, the # replacement string is not analyzed, thus no error messages. # In total, there are 5 error messages about unmatched subexpressions. @echo $@.1: ${:U 1:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} # missing \2 @echo $@.1: ${:U 1:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} # missing \2 @echo $@.2: ${:U 2:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} # missing \1 @echo $@.3: ${:U 3:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} @echo $@.5: ${:U 5:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} @echo $@.8: ${:U 8:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} @echo $@.13: ${:U 13:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} # missing \2 @echo $@.21: ${:U 21:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} # missing \1 @echo $@.34: ${:U 34:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q} # And now all together: 5 error messages for 1, 1, 2, 13, 21. @echo $@.all: ${:U1 1 2 3 5 8 13 21 34:C,1(.*)|2(.*),(\1)(\2),:Q}