bug#17748: "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" error when calling gnus-article-browse-html-article on certain emails

[Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de>]

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Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Rainer M Krug <Rainer@krugs.de> writes:
>
>> When running  gnus-article-browse-html-article  on certain emails, I get
>> the following error:
>>
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>> | Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")
>> |   re-search-forward("<meta\\s-+http-equiv=[\"']?content-type[\"']?\\s-+content=[\"']text/\\(\\sw+\\)\\(?:;\\s-*charset=\\(.+\\)\\)?[\"'][^>]*>"
>> | nil t)
>> |   mm-add-meta-html-tag((#<buffer *mm*-948779> ("text/html" (charset
>> | . "UTF-8")) quoted-printable nil nil nil nil "html-body") "UTF-8"
>> | nil)
>
> [...]
>
>> I attach the email for reference.
>
> I seem to be unable to reproduce the bug on master now.  Are you still
> seeing this problem?

Thanks for looking into this.

Not recently. I am running

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But I will keep you posted if I see it again.

Thanks,

Rainer


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