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On 2 March 2016 at 00:58, James E Keenan via RT <perlbug-followup@perl.org> wrote: > On Tue Oct 13 23:05:46 2015, victor@drawall.cc wrote: >> My bad, my “How to reproduce section” is wrong. When matched against >> an empty string, the regex will fail immediately, as expected. The >> problems only start when it is applied to a non-empty string, as in : >> >> perl -e '"a"=~/(.(?2))((?<=(?=(?1)).))/' >> >> I’ve just reproduced it on the latest blead >> (f83e001e339db3eb180f5f1918c268681665839d). >> >> I’d recommend doing a `ulimit -Sv 1048576` or some such before running >> the command, to prevent it from getting out of control. >> > > And here it is at today's blead (on Linux x86_64): > ##### > $ git show | head -1 > commit f24480bcc6bbe9061c0ff1595df8d3eadb2ab8db > > $ ulimit -Sv 1048576 && ./perl -Ilib -e '"a"=~/(.(?2))((?<=(?=(?1)).))/' > Out of memory! Yeah, I know. This is still on my todo list. All I can say is that I am now "back" hacking after being away for a while dealing with the passing of my father and hope to get to it sooner than later. Yves -- perl -Mre=debug -e "/just|another|perl|hacker/"Thread Previous | Thread Next