stack ws workspace for pcre and others #1576

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

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In message <54061F88.2080409 at schokola.de>, Nils Goroll writes:
>On 02/09/14 21:45, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>> What we really need is for pcre to tell us an estimate of how much
>> stack-space is needed during compilation
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>Is this possible? My understanding is that the recursion depth depends on the
>data and thus all we can do is set a recursion limit for the stack size we have
>available.

You tell me, I'm no PCRE expert...

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