pcre2_set_recursion_memory_management(3)

pcre2_set_recursion_memory_management3

Perl-compatible regular expressions (revised api)

Usage

#include <pcre2.h>

int pcre2_set_recursion_memory_management(
  pcre2_match_context *mcontext,
  void *(*private_malloc)(size_t, void *),
  void (*private_free)(void *, void *), void *memory_data);

Overview

From release 10.30 onwards, this function is obsolete and does nothing. The result is always zero.

There is a complete description of the PCRE2 native API in the pcre2api page and a description of the POSIX API in the pcre2posix page.

Releases

6 releases since Debian 9 (Stretch); the text changed 3 times.

  1. 9
  2. 10–12
  3. 13
  4. Arch

From pcre2 10.49-1 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.