bug#28329: 25.2; Eshell: 40M+ output: Stack overflow in regexp matcher

[Noam Postavsky]

tags 28329 + moreinfo unreproducible
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Noam Postavsky <npostavs@users.sourceforge.net> writes:

>> Apparently, the line is just plain too long...
>> I guess limiting the regexp matcher over, say, the first 256 characters
>> would fix the issue.
>> ----------
>
> Can you catch that build output in a file, so it could be reproduced by
> running 'cat build.log' in eshell?  I tried copying the fragment you
> have in your backtrace a couple of times to make it longer, but I was
> unable to trigger the error.  Perhaps the particular contents of the
> string matters too (some values might let the matcher short-circuit the
> backtracking).

ping?