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SYNOPSIS

#include <pcre.h>

int pcre_config(int what, void *where);

DESCRIPTION

This function makes it possible for a client program to find out which optional features are available in the version of the PCRE library it is using. Its arguments are as follows:

      what     A code specifying what information is required
      where    Points to where to put the data

The available codes are:

      PCRE_CONFIG_LINK_SIZE     Internal link size: 2, 3, or 4
      PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT   Internal resource limit
      PCRE_CONFIG_MATCH_LIMIT_RECURSION
                                Internal recursion depth limit
      PCRE_CONFIG_NEWLINE       Value of the default newline sequence:
                                    13 (0x000d)    for CR
                                    10 (0x000a)    for LF
                                  3338 (0x0d0a)    for CRLF
                                    -2             for ANYCRLF
                                    -1             for ANY
      PCRE_CONFIG_BSR           Indicates what \R matches by default:
                                     0             all Unicode line endings
                                     1             CR, LF, or CRLF only
      PCRE_CONFIG_POSIX_MALLOC_THRESHOLD
                                Threshold of return slots, above
                                  which malloc() is used by
                                  the POSIX API
      PCRE_CONFIG_STACKRECURSE  Recursion implementation (1=stack 0=heap)
      PCRE_CONFIG_UTF8          Availability of UTF-8 support (1=yes 0=no)
      PCRE_CONFIG_UNICODE_PROPERTIES
                                Availability of Unicode property support
                                  (1=yes 0=no)

The function yields 0 on success or PCRE_ERROR_BADOPTION otherwise.

There is a complete description of the PCRE native API in the pcreapi page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcreposix page.

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