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23.3; Long lines in compilation output cause stack overflow in regexp matcher

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From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gareth Rees <gdr <at> garethrees.org>
Cc: 9234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#9234: 23.3;
 Long lines in compilation output cause stack overflow in regexp
 matcher
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2014 17:33:42 -0800

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org> writes:

> Gareth Rees <gdr <at> garethrees.org> writes:
>
>> In a fresh emacs -Q, type
>>
>>     M-x compile RET for X in {1..100000}; do echo -n 1; done RET
>>
>> The following message appears in the echo area:
>>
>>     error in process filter: Stack overflow in regexp matcher
>>
>> With debug-on-error turned on, I get the following backtrace:
>>
>> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")
>>   re-search-forward("^ *\\([^ \n]+\\)(\\([0-9]+\\)): \\(?:error\\|warnin\\(g\\)\\|remar\\(k\\)\\)" 34233 t)
>
> I'm unable to reproduce this bug in Emacs 24...

This bug report was previously marked "unreproducible" two years ago, so
I'm closing this report.  If this is still a problem, please reopen the
bug report.

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