Re: re-search-forward ... nil t) results in error instead of returning nil

[Luc Teirlinck]

Drew Adams wrote:

   emacs -q

   Go to node Key Index of Emacs Info manual. Execute this:

   (re-search-forward "\"\\(?:[^\\\"]\\|\\\\\\(?:.\\|[\n]\\)\\)*\"\\|`[^']+'"
   nil t)

   You get this error:

By the way, I _can_ reproduce this if I first execute:

ulimit -s 8192

before I do `emacs -q'.

Sincerely,

Luc.