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| -rw-r--r-- | src/libexpr/primops.cc | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/libexpr/primops.cc b/src/libexpr/primops.cc index 99ffddaeb80c..f240e795ee79 100644 --- a/src/libexpr/primops.cc +++ b/src/libexpr/primops.cc @@ -1734,8 +1734,13 @@ static void prim_match(EvalState & state, const Pos & pos, Value * * args, Value mkString(*(v.listElems()[i] = state.allocValue()), match[i + 1].str().c_str()); } - } catch (std::regex_error &) { - throw EvalError("invalid regular expression ‘%s’, at %s", re, pos); + } catch (std::regex_error &e) { + if (e.code() == std::regex_constants::error_space) { + // limit is _GLIBCXX_REGEX_STATE_LIMIT for libstdc++ + throw EvalError("memory limit exceeded by regular expression ‘%s’, at %s", re, pos); + } else { + throw EvalError("invalid regular expression ‘%s’, at %s", re, pos); + } } } |