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Comment	>> >>> PHP is seriously broken if this somehow causes a segfault >>> >> From the PHP documentation >> "PCRE's recursion limit. Please note that if you set this value to a >> high number you may consume all the available process stack and >> eventually crash PHP (due to reaching the stack size limit imposed by >> the Operating System)." > > That should be up to the programmer to determine. I don't want the > programming language enforcing arbitrary limits. > > If a programmer wants to shoot themselves in the foot - that is their > prerogative. But this limit makes certain tasks impossible, > especially when the input data size is unknown (say, for example, an > e-mail message where the PHP programmer has no control over limiting > this input size). > >>> 5000 is WAY too low. That value is going to cause all sorts of >>> issues with any sort of even moderately complex regex that contains >>> backreferences. For that matter, 100000 is also arguably too low. >> >> Well 10000 makes IMP > 6.0 crash, so I'll have a chat with the >> sysadmin to see if he can find out why this is happening. > > There is something wrong with your system then. Because I can run > with this number at 10,000,000 and nothing happens. >
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