GNU bug report logs - #24914
24.5; isearch-regexp: wrong error message

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Wed, 9 Nov 2016 22:31:01 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: confirmed, fixed, patch

Found in versions 24.5, 25.2

Fixed in version 27.1

Done: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #68 received at 24914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com, 24914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#24914: 24.5; isearch-regexp: wrong error message
Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 08:49:44 +0200

> From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
> Cc: drew.adams <at> oracle.com,  24914 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 09 Dec 2017 21:18:05 -0500
> 
> Unfortunately, all this discussion of int size seems to be academic.  I
> took another look at the code, there is another limit due to regexp
> opcode format.  We can raise the limit to 2^16-1 though.
> [...]
> Here is the updated patch:

LGTM for master.  Thanks for the research and for the patch.
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