GNU bug report logs - #28329
25.2; Eshell: 40M+ output: Stack overflow in regexp matcher

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>

Date: Sat, 2 Sep 2017 09:36:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: moreinfo, unreproducible

Found in version 25.2

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net>
To: 28329 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: Pierre Neidhardt <ambrevar <at> gmail.com>
Subject: Re: bug#28329: 25.2;
 Eshell: 40M+ output: Stack overflow in regexp matcher
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2017 21:20:06 -0400

tags 28329 + moreinfo unreproducible
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Noam Postavsky <npostavs <at> users.sourceforge.net> writes:

>> Apparently, the line is just plain too long...
>> I guess limiting the regexp matcher over, say, the first 256 characters
>> would fix the issue.
>> ----------
>
> Can you catch that build output in a file, so it could be reproduced by
> running 'cat build.log' in eshell?  I tried copying the fragment you
> have in your backtrace a couple of times to make it longer, but I was
> unable to trigger the error.  Perhaps the particular contents of the
> string matters too (some values might let the matcher short-circuit the
> backtracking).

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