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Expression crashing mIRC #148315 03/05/06 06:29 PM
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 759 Arnhem, The Netherlands M Mpdreamz OP Hoopy frood
OP Mpdreamz Hoopy frood M Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 759 Arnhem, The Netherlands	Im sure this is due to it being a crappy expression since it falls into a never ending loop but it might be nice if it didnt cause mIRC to die , theres not even a Send/Dont Send dialog. //echo -a $regex(word word word,/(\b\w\w\w\w.*?)??(\b\1\b)??(?R)/g) $maybe

Re: Expression crashing mIRC #148316 03/05/06 07:43 PM
Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,881 H hixxy Hoopy frood
hixxy Hoopy frood H Joined: Sep 2005 Posts: 2,881	I guess that's most likely a bug in PCRE. I don't know any other languages that use it so I can't check but maybe someone who does could.

Re: Expression crashing mIRC #148317 25/05/06 02:29 PM
Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,420 London, UK Khaled Hoopy frood
Khaled Hoopy frood Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 5,420 London, UK	Thanks for the report. This is actually due to PCRE running out of stack space due to infinite recursion. The latest version of PCRE has an option to limit recursion depth, I'll see if I can use that to prevent the problem.

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