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

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From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>
To: Gareth Rees <gdr <at> garethrees.org>
Cc: 9234 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#9234: 23.3; Long lines in compilation output cause stack overflow in regexp matcher
Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 06:17:38 +0200

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...

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