> andrew wrote:
>
> > Hmm... here's an old problem that's returned (recursion on repeated
> > group matches, I expect):
> >
> > >>> p=re.compile('(x)*')
> > >>> p
> > <SRE_Pattern object at 0x8127048>
> > >>> p.match(500000*'x')
> > Segmentation fault (core dumped)
Effbot:
> fwiw, that pattern isn't portable:
Who cares -- it shouldn't dump core!
> ...but sure, I will fix that in 0.9.9 (SRE, not Python -- Christian
> has already taken care of the other one ;-). but 0.9.9 won't be
> out before the 1.6b1 release...
I assume you are planning to put the backtracking stack back in, as
you mentioned in the checkin message?
> (and to avoid scaring the hell out of the beta testers, it's probably
> better to leave the test out of the regression suite until the bug is
> fixed...)
Even better, is it possible to put a limit on the recursion level
before 1.6b1 is released (tomorrow if we get final agreement on the
license) so at least it won't dump core? Otherwise you'll get reports
of this from people who write this by accident...
--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
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