Author: Ralf Junker Date: To: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] Internal errors and crashes with quantified
subroutines
On 23.11.2011 17:23, Philip Hazel wrote:
>>> That would only raise the maximum number of forward references
>>> from around 1500 in the LINK_SIZE=3 case to around 2000, the
>>> same as the LINK_SIZE=2 case.
>>
>> This was exactly my intention. Right now the max number of forward
>> references shrinks with increasing LINK_SIZE. This change would
>> keep it identical for all LINK_SIZE.
>
> Oh I see your point. However, in the meantime, I have thought of a
> way to remove the limit without too much work (it will use malloc to
> increase the size of the workspace),
Even better!
> so perhaps this doesn't matter. After all, I suspect the occurrence
> of more than 1000 forward references must be quite rare.
I fully agree from a functionality point of view. But it could still be
nice to keep the internals in sync so malloc() kicks in at the same
number of forward references regardless of LINK_SIZE.
