Re: [perl #116537] Regex: (*THEN) doesn't work as described

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 04:47:48PM -0700, Karl Williamson wrote:
> I bisected this problem.  The offending commit is
> commit 2e64971a6530d2645969bc489f564bfd3ce64993
> Author: David Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>
> Date:   Mon May 3 13:57:58 2010 +0100
> 
>     tries: don't allocate memory at runtime
> 
>     This is an indirect fix for
>         [perl #74484] Regex causing exponential runtime+mem usage

Oh joy. I'll add it to my list...

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• [perl #116537] Regex: (*THEN) doesn't work as described by Philip Hazel
• Re: [perl #116537] Regex: (*THEN) doesn't work as described by Ronald J Kimball
• Re: [perl #116537] Regex: (*THEN) doesn't work as described by Karl Williamson
• Re: [perl #116537] Regex: (*THEN) doesn't work as described by Dave Mitchell
• Re: [perl #116537] Regex: (*THEN) doesn't work as described by Brad Gilbert