Re: "Stack overflow in regexp"

Justin Vallon <vallon(a)mindspring.com&gt; wrote: With HP-UX, I always increase the regexp stack size (from 2000 to 20000). VM gets regexp stack overflows otherwise. Sample patch attached (relative to 21.1.4). [ Note: I've also built my kernel to bump up the HP-UX max process stack size from 2MB to 16MB. I'm not sure this is necessary if you use this patch, but the comment above the variable implies that this might be. ] -- Darryl Okahata darrylo(a)sr.hp.com DISCLAIMER: this message is the author's personal opinion and does not constitute the support, opinion, or policy of Hewlett-Packard, or of the little green men that have been following him all day. Index: regex.c =================================================================== retrieving revision 1.1.1.1 diff -c -r1.1.1.1 regex.c *** regex.c 1999/06/15 22:37:58 1.1.1.1 --- regex.c 1999/07/08 22:39:09 *************** *** 1118,1124 **** --- 1118,1128 ---- whose default stack limit is 2mb. */ int re_max_failures = 20000; #else + # if defined(__hpux) + int re_max_failures = 20000; + # else int re_max_failures = 2000; + # endif #endif union fail_stack_elt