From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, 17373@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#17373: 24.3.50; match data is incorrect if there are too many groups
Date: Mon, 19 May 2014 06:48:16 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3dc9fa47-c3d8-40e2-b6e4-3f362a0c1b6e@default> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53799AF5.9090708@cs.ucla.edu>
> Yes, unfortunately Emacs currently has a limit of at most 256 groups of
> match data: one for the entire pattern, and 255 for parenthesized
> subpatterns. If you go over the limit, the excess matches are silently
> discarded. I don't see this limitation documented anywhere; it should
> be. Or better yet, the limitation should be removed.
Good to know. +1, to documenting it, at least.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-05-19 13:48 UTC|newest]
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2014-04-29 19:19 bug#17373: 24.3.50; match data is incorrect if there are too many groups Nicolas Richard
2014-05-19 5:47 ` Paul Eggert
2014-05-19 13:48 ` Drew Adams [this message]
2016-02-10 17:11 ` Marcin Borkowski
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