[pcre-dev] [Bug 947] Very weird bug.

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Author: Philip Hazel
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http://bugs.exim.org/show_bug.cgi?id=947

Philip Hazel <ph10@???> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED





--- Comment #4 from Philip Hazel <ph10@???> 2010-01-11 15:34:13 ---
I finally figured out that the only way to fix this was to change the
specification so that a subpattern containing a back reference to itself is
always treated as an atomic group. This is similar to what happens to a
recursive or subroutine group call. I think this change will be OK, because the
previous state would always suffer from this bug, so I hope nobody will have
been relying on it.

I have committed a patch for this bug, and I have also released a second
release candidate for 8.01. You were just in time to catch this. If all goes
well, 8.01 will be out next week.


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