[Python-Dev] SRE 0.9.8 benchmarks

[Guido van Rossum]

> Hmm... here's an old problem that's returned (recursion on repeated
> group matches, I expect):
> 
> >>> p=re.compile('(x)*')
> >>> p
> <SRE_Pattern object at 0x8127048>
> >>> p.match(500000*'x')
> Segmentation fault (core dumped)

Ouch.

Andrew, would you mind adding a test case for that to the re test
suite?  It's important that this doesn't come back!

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