Subject: bug#20703: 24.4; Stack overflow in regexp matcher

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jun 2015 17:46:33 +0300

> From: lee <[email-masked]>
> Date: Tue, 02 Jun 2015 23:26:10 +0200
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> > Emacs's Lisp directory weights in at around 60MB, and its TAGS file is
> > about 3MB, so assuming a similar ratio, your 1.8GB file seems to imply
> > that the indexed code of your project is more than 30GB in size, which
> > seems rather unusual.
> 
> It isn't --- the code is available here: https://github.com/Ratany/SingularityViewer
> 
> Projectile recognises the repo as a project and lets me build the TAGS
> file.
> 
> > Do you also index files which are not human-written, maybe?
> 
> The compiled version resides in a subdirectory, so it's possible.

FWIW, just cloning the Git repository and running etags on it produces
a TAGS file that is about 3.5MB, a far cry from 1.8GB.