Why regex with * get 'File mode specification error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")'

[Oleksandr Gavenko <gavenko@bifit.com.ua>]

On top of log file I usually place

-*- mode: compilation-minor; mode: auto-revert-tail; default-directory: 
"~/devel" -*-

My errors format in log is GNU.

I put additional matcher (which not work in my case, for KEIL compiler):

   (add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist 
'("^\"?\\([^\"]*\\)\"?,\\([0-9]*\\) .*\\[.*\\]: " 1 2))

I debug that this line cause error:

   File mode specification error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")

I change it to:

   (add-to-list 'compilation-error-regexp-alist 
'("^\"?\\([^\"]\{1,\}\\)\"?,\\([0-9]\{1,\}\\) .*\\[.*\\]: " 1 2))

by replacing '*' with '\{1,\}' and error goes away!

Also error occur when '*' replace with '+'.