Bug #15247: preg_match('/(.|\n)*/',$a,$b) crashes

From: beavergr@pilot.msu.edu Operating system: Win98 PHP version: 4.0.6 PHP Bug Type: Reproducible crash Bug description: preg_match('/(.|\n)*/',$a,$b) crashes if the size of $a is very large, php crashes. I replaced (.|\n)* with the better [\w\W]* and it stopped crashing. I'm not positive what the size limit is, the script that produced the crash is quite large and complex. print_r(get_loaded_extensions()) produces Array ( [0] => standard [1] => bcmath [2] => Calendar [3] => com [4] => variant [5] => ftp [6] => mysql [7] => odbc [8] => pcre [9] => session [10] => xml [11] => wddx [12] => gd [13] => pdf [14] => pgsql [15] => zlib [16] => Zend Optimizer [17] => apache ) I'm using Apache 1.3.20 -- Edit bug report at: http://bugs.php.net/?id=15247&edit=1