This is a bug report for perl from fish@iface.co.uk, generated with the help of perlbug 1.26 running under perl 5.00503. ----------------------------------------------------------------- [Please enter your report here] the following regex compiled and ran without problems under several previous versions but now generates an "Out of memory!" error message during compilation, even if it is the only statement in a script: $_[0] =~ s/^((?:[^\n]*\n){11})( {8})@@.{39}/$1$2/m; [Please do not change anything below this line] ----------------------------------------------------------------- --- Site configuration information for perl 5.00503: Configured by drow at Sun Apr 30 12:07:23 EDT 2000. Summary of my perl5 (5.0 patchlevel 5 subversion 3) configuration: Platform: osname=linux, osvers=2.2.15pre14, archname=i386-linux uname='linux them 2.2.15pre14 #2 smp mon mar 13 14:29:00 est 2000 i686 unknown ' hint=recommended, useposix=true, d_sigaction=define usethreads=undef useperlio=undef d_sfio=undef Compiler: cc='cc', optimize='-O2 ', gccversion=2.95.2 20000313 (Debian GNU/Linux) cppflags='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN -I/usr/local/include' ccflags ='-Dbool=char -DHAS_BOOL -D_REENTRANT -DDEBIAN -I/usr/local/include' stdchar='char', d_stdstdio=undef, usevfork=false intsize=4, longsize=4, ptrsize=4, doublesize=8 d_longlong=define, longlongsize=8, d_longdbl=define, longdblsize=12 alignbytes=4, usemymalloc=n, prototype=define Linker and Libraries: ld='cc', ldflags =' -L/usr/local/lib' libpth=/usr/local/lib /lib /usr/lib libs=-lnsl -lndbm -lgdbm -ldbm -ldb -ldl -lm -lc -lposix -lcrypt libc=, so=so, useshrplib=false, libperl=libperl.a Dynamic Linking: dlsrc=dl_dlopen.xs, dlext=so, d_dlsymun=undef, ccdlflags='-rdynamic' cccdlflags='-fPIC', lddlflags='-shared -L/usr/local/lib' Locally applied patches: --- @INC for perl 5.00503: /usr/lib/perl5/5.005/i386-linux /usr/lib/perl5/5.005 /usr/local/lib/site_perl/i386-linux /usr/local/lib/site_perl /usr/lib/perl5 . --- Environment for perl 5.00503: HOME=/u/fish LANG=C LANGUAGE (unset) LD_LIBRARY_PATH (unset) LOGDIR (unset) PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin PERL_BADLANG (unset) SHELL=/bin/sh ********************************************************************** This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or individuals to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This message has been checked for the presence of computer viruses. **********************************************************************Thread Next