Re: XEmacs hangs in rfc2047-encode-string

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Dec 31 2004, Steinar Bang wrote:

> All backtraces has shown it being stuck in rfc2047-parse-and-decode,
> but the actual headers being processed have been different, so I think
> it's just using a lot of time, rather than being completely stuck.
>
> When this happened after the upgrade yesterday, it happened on
> ISO-8859-1 decoded headers.  I did a CVS update, and byte compile on
> gnus, and that seemed to fix it.  But today it happened again.
[...]
> The debian package version number is
> 	xemacs21 21.4.16-1
[...]
> The backtrace from killing a stuck XEmacs process follows:
> Lisp backtrace follows:
>
>   string-match("=\\?\\([^][- ()<>@,;:*\\\"/?.=]+\\)\\(?:\\*[^?]+\\)?\\?\\(B\\|Q\\)\\?\\([!->@-~ ]*\\)\\?=" "=?windows-1251?B?0ODn8ODh7vLq8yDw5err4Ozt+/Ug6CBQUiDq7u325e/26OkgLy8g4e7p?=")
>   # bind (word)
>   rfc2047-parse-and-decode("=?windows-1251?B?0ODn8ODh7vLq8yDw5err4Ozt+/Ug6CBQUiDq7u325e/26OkgLy8g4e7p?=")
[...]

We got several reports like this one from people using XEmacs 21.4.16.
I guess it's a bug in XEmacs' RegExp handling.  Please make a full
XEmacs bug report and send it to the XEmacs developers.

Bye, Reiner.
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