[pcre-dev] [Bug 869] Unreasonable recursion caused by two ne…

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Author: John Smith
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Subject: [pcre-dev] [Bug 869] Unreasonable recursion caused by two nested groups
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=869

John Smith <b765786@???> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|INVALID                     |





--- Comment #2 from John Smith <b765786@???> 2009-08-01 23:07:45 ---
> I do not believe there is anything that can be done differently in PCRE.


I actually believe there _is_ something that can be done differently:

Either (1) do not use recursion or (2) use recursion without variables on the
stack (i.e. locals).


This is not a bug per se, but poor design.

See what issues the poor design causes at
http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=40846&thanks=6

Thanks.


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