From:             crisp at tweakers dot net
Operating system: all
PHP version:      4.4.2
PHP Bug Type:     PCRE related
Bug description:  preg_match_all incorrect due to backtrack length limit?

Description:
------------
It seems that when PCRE needs to backtrack more than 20 characters in
order to evaluate an OR'ed expression the results of a preg_match_all are
incorrect/incomplete.
See below code as an example.

Reproduce code:
---------------
$foo = 'foo# bar# abcdefghijklmnopqrst bla#';
echo '$foo = ', $foo, "\n";

preg_match_all('/([a-y]|z)+#/', $foo, $matches1);
preg_match_all('/([a-y]+|z)+#/', $foo, $matches2);

print_r($matches1[0]);
print_r($matches2[0]);


$foo = 'foo# bar# abcdefghijklmnopqrstu bla#';
echo '$foo = ', $foo, "\n";

preg_match_all('/([a-y]|z)+#/', $foo, $matches1);
preg_match_all('/([a-y]+|z)+#/', $foo, $matches2);

print_r($matches1[0]);
print_r($matches2[0]);


Expected result:
----------------
both expressions for both strings should give the following output:

Array
(
    [0] => foo#
    [1] => bar#
    [2] => bla#
)

Actual result:
--------------
The last expression gives the following output on the last string:

Array
(
    [0] => foo#
    [1] => bar#
)

The last match on bla# is missing in the result for the preg_match_all

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Edit bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=36983&edit=1
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Try a CVS snapshot (PHP 4.4): 
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=trysnapshot44
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http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=trysnapshot51
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http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=trysnapshot60
Fixed in CVS:                 http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=fixedcvs
Fixed in release:             
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=alreadyfixed
Need backtrace:               http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=needtrace
Need Reproduce Script:        http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=needscript
Try newer version:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=oldversion
Not developer issue:          http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=support
Expected behavior:            http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=notwrong
Not enough info:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=notenoughinfo
Submitted twice:              
http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=submittedtwice
register_globals:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=globals
PHP 3 support discontinued:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=php3
Daylight Savings:             http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=dst
IIS Stability:                http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=isapi
Install GNU Sed:              http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=gnused
Floating point limitations:   http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=float
No Zend Extensions:           http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=nozend
MySQL Configuration Error:    http://bugs.php.net/fix.php?id=36983&r=mysqlcfg

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