Python Coredump on FreeBSD

[A.M. Kuchling]

On Mon, 12 May 2003 16:20:08 +0200, 
	Harald Schneider <h_schneider at marketmix.com> wrote:
> When I call
> re.compile(.......).search(.....)
> in sequence a few times, then the regular expression module re causes this
> coredump. It's implementation must differ from other platforms. It looks

What is the pattern being compiled, and how large is the string being
searched?  There are patterns that consume a lot of C stack space while
searching.  There's a fixed recursion limit that's intended to prevent core
dumps, and it's possible the recursion limit is set incorrectly for FreeBSD.

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