Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 704] New: stack overflow crash

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Author: Philip Hazel
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Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] [Bug 704] New: stack overflow crash

On Mon, 5 May 2008, Lothar Scholz wrote:

> the library crashs with a stack overflow error in pcre_exec.

Stack overflows are not unknown in PCRE. If you give it a pattern and
data that recurses a lot, it will run out of stack. Have you read the
pcrestack.3 man page?

Philip

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