Re: c-mode imenu: Stack overflow in regexp matcher

[Glenn Morris]

Stefan Monnier wrote:

> Yes, I saw that, but it's still not clear to me what's going on
> here. E.g. the "match any non-identifier char" can match a
> parenthesis, is that correct?
>
> I guess a quick fix is to replace [^()] by [^()\n].

Ping, anyone in CC land?

The problematic "[^()]*" part was installed 12-Dec-99, before which it
was just "^\\<.*". If it really needs to match across newlines, maybe
it could match up to some finite number.


1999-12-12  Martin Stjernholm  <address@hidden>

* cc-menus.el (cc-imenu-c++-generic-expression): Match classes with
nonhanging open braces. Don't match the throws clause that might
follow the function prototype in C++.