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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 07:20:13PM +0200, demerphq wrote:
> On 29 July 2013 18:17, Philip Hazel <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote:
> > $ perl -e 'x =~ /(?:(a(*SKIP)b)){0}(?:(?1)|ac)/'
> > Infinite recursion in regex at -e line 1.
> >
> > As far as I can see, there is no infinite recursion here. Capturing group
> > number 1 is (a(*SKIP)b) and that does not do any recursing, so calling
> > it via (?1) is just a single recursion.
>
> This looks to me like another example of {0} => NOTHING optimization
> not playing nicely with recursive patterns.
Yes, caused by commit 3018b823898645e44b8c37c70ac5c6302b031381
Fixed by commit 2e3a23da260a7ec5d61b81cb34c38de5e528b41d
Nicholas Clark
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