GNU bug report logs - #20629
25.0.50; Regression: TAGS broken, can't find anything in C++ files.

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Reported by: "Jan D." <jan.h.d <at> swipnet.se>

Date: Fri, 22 May 2015 05:59:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Francesco Potortì <pot <at> gnu.org>
To: Dmitry Gutov <dgutov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 20629 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#20629: Fwd: bug#20703: 24.4; Stack overflow in regexp matcher
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2015 00:40:05 +0200

>> This unrelated bug report contains interesting info: maybe what I and
>> others have assumed is not true and optimising the size of the TAGS file
>> is still a worthwhile objective.
>
>I'm guessing it's not the file size that led to the stack overflow 
>problem there.

Most probably, in fact.  That's why I said the bug was unrelated.

However, it contains interesting info: TAGS file sizes of 2 GB are not
out of order.  This means that caring about file size is a worthwhile
goal.  With the consequences I had mentioned in my previous mail.
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