[[email protected] - Wed Oct 20 13:36:58 2004]:
Robert via RT wrote:
circumstances. This problem with the long string doesn't look like that.
Note that the extremely long string is required even though the regexp
execution can't possibly get past the first few characters, and that the
code in unexecuted parts of the regexp affects the result. Neither of
these features resembles the stack overflow problems that I've seen.
Also, as I pointed out, it's not affected by stack size.
Robert via RT wrote:
This sounds like the the well known regex recursion & stack issue.
I've seen the stack overflow due to backtracking records, in severalcircumstances. This problem with the long string doesn't look like that.
Note that the extremely long string is required even though the regexp
execution can't possibly get past the first few characters, and that the
code in unexecuted parts of the regexp affects the result. Neither of
these features resembles the stack overflow problems that I've seen.
Also, as I pointed out, it's not affected by stack size.
is involved here. I'd include the backtrace, but
"/home/steve/smoke/perl-current/core" is not a core dump: File format
not recognize
Hmmm...Hate!
