Re: Stack overflow in ext/pcre
| From: | Andrei Zmievski | Date: | Fri, 02 Nov 2001 17:17:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Stack overflow in ext/pcre | ||
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On Fri, 02 Nov 2001, Sebastian Bergmann wrote:
> Andrei Zmievski wrote:
> > No. This is a limitation of the PCRE library, which manifests itself
> > when you work with very long strings and fairly complex patterns.
>
> Can't we catch this in our extension? Crashes are not nice :)
It really depends both on the string *and* the pattern used. Short of
doing setjmp/longjmp, I don't see a good way of dealing with it, and
even that is evil.
-Andrei
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