From df28c68de122b395234fcd4f8857d36c96b8ec56 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jingham Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 04:05:13 +0000 Subject: Note Stack space increase needed for complex patterns with many subexpressions in Tcl8.2 regexp package. --- mac/bugs.doc | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/mac/bugs.doc b/mac/bugs.doc index 3e1efb9..b8e7b96 100644 --- a/mac/bugs.doc +++ b/mac/bugs.doc @@ -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. -- cgit v0.12