Subject: Re: bug#23667: 24.4; "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" happens in only some buffers, for the same arguments

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:42:14 +0300

> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 07:42:53 -0700
> From: Ernesto Alfonso <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> ideally string-match shouldn't crash for that length of input

It didn't crash.  It detected that it ran out of stack space, and
recovered with an error message.

Thanks.