GNU bug report logs - #23667
24.4; "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" happens in only some buffers, for the same arguments

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Ernesto Alfonso <erjoalgo <at> gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 02:42:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: notabug

Found in version 24.4

Done: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #23 received at 23667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Ernesto Alfonso <erjoalgo <at> gmail.com>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 23667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#23667: 24.4;
 "Stack overflow in regexp matcher" happens in only some buffers, for
 the same arguments
Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2016 11:42:14 +0300

> Date: Wed, 1 Jun 2016 07:42:53 -0700
> From: Ernesto Alfonso <erjoalgo <at> gmail.com>
> Cc: 23667 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 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.
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