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mruby-regexp: ask the backward search about a long multibyte subject - #7234

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Follow-up to #7233, test only.

The backward search that landed there has two paths. A window at the end of the
subject answers a match near the end; a match further in is left to a forward
search over the whole range, which the window falls through to once it would
read more than a fixed span. The tests that came with it ask each path on the
subjects it takes to reach it, but the subjects are ASCII. The multibyte tests
beside them use a few characters each, which one window covers whole, so the
second path has never been asked about a character.

This adds a subject that reaches it. "あい" + "うえ" * 2000 is 4,002
characters and 12,006 bytes:

  • and うえ are at the end, inside the first windows, and are asked in
    both spaces: mb.rindex(/うえ/) is 4,000 and mb.byterindex(/うえ/) is
    12,000.
  • the one あい is at the front, past the reach of any window, so it is the
    forward search that answers: mb.rindex(/あい/) and mb.byterindex(/あい/)
    are both 0, mb.rpartition(/あい/) splits there, and mb.rindex(/お/) is
    the miss.
  • ("あああ" + "い" * 3000).rindex(/ああ/) is 1, the later of the two
    overlapping matches at that same end.
  • the positions each of the pair reads: mb.rindex(/うえ/, 1) is nil where
    mb.rindex(/うえ/, 2) is 2, and mb.byterindex(/うえ/, 3) is nil where
    mb.byterindex(/うえ/, 6) is 6.

The subject is also what puts a window start inside a character. The window is
measured in bytes and widened by doubling, so on a subject of three-byte
characters most of the starts it takes are interior ones; the engines step over
those rather than seed an attempt at them, and this is the first test where the
window does it more than a couple of times.

The block carries the __ENCODING__ guard the character-bounds test beside it
carries, and sits in its own assert so that the guard does not swallow
assertions that hold on every build.

Verification

Every answer above matches CRuby 4.0.6.

rake test, build_config/ci/gcc-clang.rb:

build total KO crash
full-debug 2,347 0 0
bintest 2,347 0 0
bintest (bintest suite) 122 0 0
cxx_abi 2,347 0 0
byte-string 2,277 0 0
ascii-case 2,344 0 0

byte-string is the build that skips it, having no MRB_UTF8_STRING.

Green also with RE_RSEARCH_PROBE_SPAN compiled as 0, which sends every one
of these through the forward search, and as 100000000, which sends every one
of them through the window: what the two paths answer on this subject is the
same.

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    • Added UTF-8 regression coverage for backward regular-expression searches on long multibyte strings.
    • Verified character and byte offsets, boundary behavior, unmatched patterns, partitioning, overlapping matches, and position offsets.

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Added UTF-8 regression tests for backward searches on long multibyte strings. The tests cover rindex, byterindex, and rpartition, including offsets, boundaries, overlapping matches, and unmatched patterns.

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UTF-8 backward search coverage

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Adds UTF-8 tests for character and byte offsets, boundary behavior, overlapping matches, unmatched patterns, and rpartition results.

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This test-only change expands UTF-8 backward-search coverage for long subjects and byte offsets. It is mergeable with owner awareness of the bounded concern that one byte-offset assertion may not directly exercise an interior multibyte window.

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The backward search of `rindex`, `byterindex` and `rpartition` (mruby#7233) has two
paths: a window at the end of the subject, and a forward search over the whole
of it for what the window cannot reach. Which one answers depends on how far
the last match is from the end, and the tests that came with it ask each of
them on the subjects it takes to reach them, but only in ASCII. The multibyte
tests beside them use subjects of a few characters, which every window covers,
so the second path has never been asked about a character at all.

Ask it. `"あい" + "うえ" * 2000` is 4,002 characters and 12,006 bytes, and its
one `あい` is at the front, past the reach of any window; `え` and `うえ` are
at the end, within the first. Both are asked in both spaces, along with the
miss, the overlapping match, `rpartition`, and the positions the pair reads
differently.

The subject is also what puts a window start inside a character: the window is
measured in bytes and widened by doubling, so on this subject most of the
starts it takes are interior ones, which the engines step over rather than
seed an attempt at.

Green as it stands, and green with the window's span bound compiled as 0, which
sends every one of these through the forward search, and as 100,000,000, which
sends every one of them through the window: what the two paths answer here is
the same.
@takumin takumin changed the title test: ask the backward search about a long multibyte subject mruby-regexp: ask the backward search about a long multibyte subject Aug 17, 2026
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