Re: [AUCTeX-devel] stack overflow in regexp matcher (reftex-using-biblatex)

[Tassilo Horn]

Alan Schmitt <address@hidden> writes:

Hi Alan,

> I no longer can use the function `reftex-parse-all' because it results
> in a stack overflow when searching for the regexp in
> `reftex-using-biblatex' when the file is too large.
>
> Too reproduce, create a file with 10000 lines with the word foo, and
> evaluate this:
>
> (re-search-forward "^[^%]*\\\\usepackage.*{biblatex}" nil t)
>
> I can reproduce this in a vanilla emacs 24.4 starting with option -Q.

I can also reproduce that.

> Is this a known bug?

It seems its a known emacs issue:
http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=18577

Bye,
Tassilo

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