Re: segmentation fault when searching for repeated text

2002-11-13 Thread David Wheeler
On Wednesday, November 13, 2002, at 03:55 AM, Eike Grote wrote: This seems to be a Perl limitation. But as the other reports (Darwin, Linux) show crashes at smaller values of $_ there might be a problem of handling deep recursions on various OSes. Might I suggest that someone use perlbug to

segmentation fault when searching for repeated text

2002-11-12 Thread Gakuji Ohtori
The following code ends up with an error (segmentation fault): $_ = 'x' x 1000; /(a.|.){2,}/o; The segmentation fault seems to happen only when the searched text ($_ in this example) is longer than 855 characters. I know that m and n in the {m,n} qualifier are limited, but there isn't a

Re: segmentation fault when searching for repeated text

2002-11-12 Thread Peter N Lewis
The following code ends up with an error (segmentation fault): $_ = 'x' x 1000; /(a.|.){2,}/o; The segmentation fault seems to happen only when the searched text ($_ in this example) is longer than 855 characters. I know that m and n in the {m,n} qualifier are limited, but there isn't a

Re: segmentation fault when searching for repeated text

2002-11-12 Thread Rick Frankel
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 02:31:03PM +0800, Peter N Lewis wrote: The following code ends up with an error (segmentation fault): $_ = 'x' x 1000; /(a.|.){2,}/o; The segmentation fault seems to happen only when the searched text ($_ in this example) is longer than 855 characters.