vrana Fri Mar 23 15:45:21 2007 UTC
Modified files:
/phpdoc/en/reference/pcre pattern.syntax.xml
Log:
The maximum length of a subject string (bug #40627)
http://cvs.php.net/viewvc.cgi/phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml?r1=1.13&r2=1.14&diff_format=u
Index: phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml
diff -u phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml:1.13
phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml:1.14
--- phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml:1.13 Mon Jan 9 13:46:10 2006
+++ phpdoc/en/reference/pcre/pattern.syntax.xml Fri Mar 23 15:45:20 2007
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
-<!-- $Revision: 1.13 $ -->
+<!-- $Revision: 1.14 $ -->
<!-- splitted from ./en/functions/pcre.xml, last change in rev 1.2 -->
<refentry id="reference.pcre.pattern.syntax">
<refnamediv>
@@ -1749,6 +1749,14 @@
which they refer.
</para>
+ <para>
+ The maximum length of a subject string is the largest positive number
+ that an integer variable can hold. However, PCRE uses recursion to
+ handle subpatterns and indefinite repetition. This means that the
+ available stack space may limit the size of a subject string that can be
+ processed by certain patterns.
+ </para>
+
</refsect2>
<refsect2 id="regexp.reference.performances">
