Re: Stack overflow in regexp matcher

[Stefan Monnier]

> Debugger entered--Lisp error: (error "Stack overflow in regexp matcher")
>   re-search-forward(": \\(.+\\): \\(?:Permission denied\\|No such
> \\(?:file or directory\\|device or address\\)\\)$" 69633 t)

The only way for this regexp to cause a stack overflow is if there's a *very*
long line.
We could maybe reduce the stack use by replacing ".+" with something like
"\\([^:\n]*:\\)*[^:\n]*".


        Stefan