Re: stack overflow in regex engine

2024-05-22 Thread Philip Race
They still need review and testing, and if the area is sensitive or complex that can be quite time consuming on all ends of it. Which would all also be the case even if an experienced contributor provided the fix. -phil. Anyway, thanks a bunch for responding; I was worried that no one would. *Fr

Re: stack overflow in regex engine

2024-05-22 Thread Philip Race
P4 is the default JBS priority, so sometimes it just means no one figured out the true priority. But in general P4 bugs could be open for years, or even never get fixed. The priority is also partially an assessment of where it falls as a priority for the JDK developers. A user of JDK may have a

Re: Usage of iconv()

2024-04-25 Thread Philip Race
On 4/24/24 4:24 AM, Magnus Ihse Bursie wrote: That is a good question. libiconv is used only on macOS and AIX, for a few libraries, as you say. I just tried removing -liconv from the macOS dependencies and recompiled, just to see what would happen. There were three instances for macOS: libsp

Re: Testing no memory leak occurs via references

2023-03-07 Thread Philip Race
Having just a very few sources of wisdom on this in the JDK test suites is a good idea because then any tests that might be affected by policy changes would be easily spotted. I say this despite an instinctive reticence to rely on "frameworks" and "utilities" in jtreg tests. As resources allow