id summary reporter owner description type status milestone component version severity resolution keywords cc 620 """memory exhausted"" in regex matching" nobody John Maddock "{{{ Using the following regex: (a*ba*)*c to match the following text: abababababababababababab will throw an exception saying ""Memory exhausted"" (tried with g++ 4.0.4 on linux with boost 1.32 and 1.33. Similar problem on Windows/mingw with 1.32) The following, more useful expression has the same problem: (a*ba*d?)*c Charles-Henri Gros }}}" Bugs closed regex None Wont Fix