fix(dispatcher): surface preg_match() engine failures instead of treating them as no-match

All dispatcher strategies checked preg_match() results with `!== 1`,
which conflates a genuine no-match (0) with a PCRE engine failure
(false), e.g. PREG_BACKTRACK_LIMIT_ERROR from a catastrophically
backtracking route pattern. Because dynamic routes for the same
method are combined into shared regex chunks, one such route could
make the preg_match() call for the whole chunk fail, silently
turning an unrelated, cheap route in that chunk into a spurious
NOT_FOUND.

Add a shared matchRoute() helper on RegexBasedAbstract that calls
preg_match() and throws a RuntimeException (including
preg_last_error_msg()) when it returns false, while preserving the
existing 0/1 no-match/match behavior. Update GroupCountBased,
GroupPosBased, CharCountBased and MarkBased to use it.

Fixes #167
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@@ -13,8 +13,11 @@ use FastRoute\Dispatcher\Result\MethodNotAllowed;
use FastRoute\Dispatcher\Result\NotMatched;
use PHPUnit\Framework\Attributes as PHPUnit;
use PHPUnit\Framework\TestCase;
use RuntimeException;
use function FastRoute\simpleDispatcher;
use function ini_set;
use function str_repeat;
/** @phpstan-import-type ExtraParameters from DataGenerator */
abstract class DispatcherTestCase extends TestCase
@@ -177,6 +180,36 @@ abstract class DispatcherTestCase extends TestCase
}, $this->generateDispatcherOptions());
}
/**
* A PCRE engine failure must surface instead of being reported as
* NOT_FOUND for an unrelated route in the same combined regex chunk.
*
* @see https://github.com/nikic/FastRoute/issues/167
*/
#[PHPUnit\Test]
public function regexEngineFailureIsNotSilentlyTreatedAsNotFound(): void
{
$previousLimit = ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', '1000');
self::assertNotFalse($previousLimit, 'Unable to lower pcre.backtrack_limit for this test');
try {
$this->expectException(RuntimeException::class);
$this->expectExceptionMessageMatches('/Backtrack limit exhausted/');
$dispatcher = simpleDispatcher(static function (ConfigureRoutes $r): void {
// Catastrophically backtracking pattern.
$r->addRoute('GET', '/{p:(?:a?a?)*}/complicated', 'complicated_pattern');
// Cheap route in the same chunk: it would match on its own, but the
// chunk's preg_match() call fails.
$r->addRoute('GET', '/{p:a+}', 'cheap_route');
}, $this->generateDispatcherOptions());
$dispatcher->dispatch('GET', '/' . str_repeat('a', 30));
} finally {
ini_set('pcre.backtrack_limit', $previousLimit);
}
}
/** @return iterable<string, array{0: string, 1: string, 2: Closure(ConfigureRoutes):void, 3: string, 4?: array<string, string>}> */
public static function provideFoundDispatchCases(): iterable
{