Re: "error: too deeply nested expressions" for large Perl input file

[Bruno Haible]

Gavin Smith wrote:
> In gettext 0.22, there is an error running xgettext with a large input
> file:
> 
> $ /usr/local/bin/xgettext    HTML.pm     
> HTML.pm:8052: error: too deeply nested expressions
> 
> This makes "make update-po" break in the Texinfo package.

Thanks for the report. Fixed through <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64552>.

> I have tried to reduce the input file to a minimal case by deleting
> chunks of the file but beyond a certain point the error disappears.

Yes, in this case, the problem appeared only when the input file is quite large.

Bruno