From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>
Cc: 18577@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#18577: Regexp I-search: [(error Stack overflow in regexp matcher)]
Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2014 12:56:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87mw9kt3m7.fsf@igel.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140928085554.GA3157@acm.acm> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Sun, 28 Sep 2014 08:55:55 +0000")
Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de> writes:
> With point at BOB, do C-M-s and enter this regular expression at the
> prompt:
>
> /\*\(\([^'*]\|\*[^/']\)*\*?'\([^'*]\|\*[^/']\)*\*?'\)*\([^'*]\|\*[^'/]\)*\*?'\([^'*]\|\*[^/']\)*\*?\*/
\(...\(...\)*...\)* is bad. \(...\)*\(...\)* is also bad. Both can cause
combinatorial explosions in backtracking.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-09-28 10:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-28 8:55 bug#18577: Regexp I-search: [(error Stack overflow in regexp matcher)] Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 10:56 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2014-09-28 12:37 ` Alan Mackenzie
2014-09-28 12:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-09-28 17:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-11-27 8:44 ` Tassilo Horn
2021-10-23 2:47 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 7:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23 8:30 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 8:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-23 9:32 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-23 11:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-24 22:08 ` Stefan Kangas
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