Trivial test script crashes perl

Joerg Sonnenberger joerg at britannica.bec.de
Mon Aug 28 04:03:27 PDT 2006


On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 03:32:09PM -0700, walt wrote:
> I copied the regexp search string from intltool-merge, so
> I'm hoping that one of you perl wizards out there can
> simplify the regexp to the minimum that will trigger the
> crash.  (I'm just a perl newbie, so I'm not even sure what
> the regexp is searching for.)

It's not really surprising. This regex is testing stack allocation :-)
The culprit in metacity's case is dz.po, but I'll have a look
at fixing intlmerge.

Joerg





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