[IronPython] differences in IronPython/CPython regular expressions?

[Bill Janssen]

Jeff Hardy <jdhardy at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 2, 2011 at 9:41 AM, Bill Janssen <janssen at parc.com> wrote:
> > Jeff Hardy <jdhardy at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> The fact that it works on CPython fairly fast indicates a bug
> >> somewhere, I'm just not sure if it's IronPython or Mono.
> >
> > I just tried it with real MS .NET, on a 64-bit Windows 7 machine with a
> > new download of IronPython 2.7.  On that platform, it core-dumps (well,
> > ipy exits with a StackOverflowException).
> 
> Any chance you could get a debugger on there and figure out where the
> SOE is (IronPython or .NET)? If not, I can try to take a look if you
> send the complete regex, but probably not until the weekend.

Would gdb work?  I'll try.

The fact that it's different between .NET and Mono makes me guess it's
in the System::Text::RegularExpressions package.

Bill