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authorSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-02-16 19:25:05 (GMT)
committerSerhiy Storchaka <storchaka@gmail.com>2013-02-16 19:25:05 (GMT)
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Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
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Library
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+- Issue #9669: Protect re against infinite loops on zero-width matching in
+ non-greedy repeat. Patch by Matthew Barnett.
+
- Issue #13169: The maximal repetition number in a regular expression has been
increased from 65534 to 2147483647 (on 32-bit platform) or 4294967294 (on
64-bit).