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Re: Regular Expression bug

From:
Ilya Zakharevich
Date:
September 6, 1999 14:07
Subject:
Re: Regular Expression bug
Message ID:
19990906170712.C11530@monk.mps.ohio-state.edu
On Mon, Sep 06, 1999 at 12:42:27AM -0600, Ed Peschko wrote:
> > Reasonable or not is not of any matter.. <stuff about stack space>
> 
> Well, then how do you account for it working in perl5.005_03? It works
> for both a good match and a bad (just tested it).

Different stack size per frame?  If the segfault does not go away when
you increase the stack size tenfold, let me know.

> IMO this really has to work in order for me to be able to grep through
> C/C++ code.

Nope.  Your REx is very unefficient.

Ilya



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