- "/* This file is automatically written by the dftables auxiliary \n"
- "program. If you edit it by hand, you might like to edit the Makefile to \n"
- "prevent its ever being regenerated.\n\n");
+ "/* This file was automatically written by the dftables auxiliary\n"
+ "program. It contains character tables that are used when no external\n"
+ "tables are passed to PCRE by the application that calls it. The tables\n"
+ "are used only for characters whose code values are less than 256.\n\n");
+fprintf(f,
+ "The following #includes are present because without them gcc 4.x may remove\n"
+ "the array definition from the final binary if PCRE is built into a static\n"
+ "library and dead code stripping is activated. This leads to link errors.\n"
+ "Pulling in the header ensures that the array gets flagged as \"someone\n"
+ "outside this compilation unit might reference this\" and so it will always\n"
+ "be supplied to the linker. */\n\n"
+ "#ifdef HAVE_CONFIG_H\n"
+ "#include \"config.h\"\n"
+ "#endif\n\n"
+ "#include \"pcre_internal.h\"\n\n");