New subject: Are strings generally limited?

27 Oct 2003


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| Pike v7.5 release 12 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)
| > Regexp.PCRE rx=Regexp.PCRE( "("([^"\\]|\\.)*")" );
| > rx->split( """ + "x"*0xE800 );
| zsh: segmentation fault  pike
Ouch. That lowered my esteem for PCRE quite a bit. It ought to be
reported to them.
Yes, if it is a PCRE problem and not a Pike problem... 
But I can't see how it can be a Pike problem. Does Pike switch method
somewhere depending on string length?
/ Mirar
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2003-10-27 12:49:
Subject: Re: Are strings generally limited?

Mirar mirar-yg@mirar.org wrote:
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| Pike v7.5 release 12 running Hilfe v3.5 (Incremental Pike Frontend)
| > Regexp.PCRE rx=Regexp.PCRE( "("([^"\\]|\\.)*")" );
| > rx->split( """ + "x"*0xE800 );
| zsh: segmentation fault  pike
Hmm?
Ouch. That lowered my esteem for PCRE quite a bit. It ought to be
reported to them.
/ Brevbäraren