bug#24358: 25.1.50; re-search-forward errors with "Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size"

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
> Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2016 20:29:36 -0400
> Cc: 24358@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> npostavs@users.sourceforge.net writes:
> >
> >> (I'm also on GNU/Linux, Arch) I get the same max-specpdl-size error with
> >> 25.1.50, with 24.5 (and below) I get (error "Stack overflow in regexp
> >> matcher")
> 
> icalendar--read-element has been fixed, but this still reproduces when
> doing (re-search-forward ".*\\(\n.*\\)*" nil t) on the text file given
> in the OP.

Isn't that "user error"?

> And I'm still seeing an assertion failure due to what looks like
> memory corruption on the emacs-25 branch.

Details of the assertion?