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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#17373: 24.3.50; match data is incorrect if there are too many groups |
Date: | Sun, 18 May 2014 22:47:33 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.5.0 |
The limitation is wired into the representation of the 'start_memory' code in compiled regular expressions: this code has a one-byte operand. As far as I know, the limitation is specific to Emacs, and is not present in the Gnulib or glibc versions of the regexp matcher.
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