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Optimization #1046

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replace pcre_get_substring with pcre_copy_substring

Added by Victor Julien over 10 years ago. Updated about 3 years ago.

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The get variant returns newly alloc'd memory, which is unnecessary most of the time.

We should replace the get usage in all rule parsing code.


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Related to Suricata - Bug #3566: rules: minor memory leak involving pcre_get_substringClosedJeff LucovskyActions
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