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authorjingham <jingham>1999-08-15 04:05:13 (GMT)
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Note Stack space increase needed for complex patterns with many subexpressions in Tcl8.2 regexp package.
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@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ by Ray Johnson
Sun Microsystems Laboratories
rjohnson@eng.sun.com
-RCS: @(#) $Id: bugs.doc,v 1.2 1998/09/14 18:40:04 stanton Exp $
+RCS: @(#) $Id: bugs.doc,v 1.3 1999/08/15 04:05:13 jingham Exp $
This was a new feature as of Tcl7.6b1 and as such I'll started with
a clean slate. I currently know of no reproducable bugs. I often
@@ -30,3 +30,8 @@ Known bugs in the current release.
If you find additional test cases that show crashes please let us
know!
+* In Tcl 8.2, the new Regexp code seems to be more deeply recursive than
+the older version in Tcl8.0. As a result, I have had to increase the Stack
+size of Tcl to 1Meg. If you are not doing regexps with many subexpressions,
+this is probably more stack than you will need. You can relink with the
+stack set to 512K, and you will be fine for most purposes.