Re: Possible regexp bug in 5.8

[jmarant@nerim.net (Jérôme Marant)]

Adam Heath <adam@lapdoog.doogie.org> writes:

> Perl 5.8 is different.  The code does things differently.  Different methods
> are called.
>
> In short, you'll need to fix the code.
>
> In detail, install-info(from dpkg) had a similiar problem with perl 5.8.  The
> reason is that it had an unbounded {*} pattern, and with certain large inputs,
> would overflow the stack.  This is because in perl 5.8, more stack space is
> used, so the limit was reached sooner.  It was never reached with 5.6 and this
> particular input.
>
> Check the dpkg changelog to find the bug#.

Ok, I will.

Thanks for this enlightenment.

Cheers,

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Jérôme Marant

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