in reply to Another 64-bit Perl bug. Is it fixed post 5.18?
For as long as I remember doing Perl development, there was always a limitation that a quantifier like + or * wouldn't actually match an unlimited number of characters, but at most a fixed, upper limit.
IIRC in the days of perl 5.8, it was more like 2**15.
It seems the situation has improved a bit for + and *, but you can still see the explicit limit with the generic quantifier:
$ perl -Mre=debug -e '/.{2,}/' Compiling REx ".{2,}" Final program: 1: CURLY {2,32767} (4) 3: REG_ANY (0) 4: END (0) minlen 2 Freeing REx: ".{2,}"
So the upper limit for {2,} is actually 32767 (== 2**15 - 1), not unlimited.
If its been fixed already, which version did the fix happen?
I don't think it was ever fixed.
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