Re: an "internal compiler error"

[Jose E. Marchesi]

> I wrote:
>> Well done, poke hackers: An input file with a couple of thousand
>> opening braces or opening parentheses does not abort poke, but gets to the
>> input prompt:
>> 
>> (poke) .load /home/bruno/foo.pk
>> /home/bruno/foo.pk:63:39: error: memory exhausted
>> {{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{{
>>                                       ^
>> (poke) 
>
> But in this case it's not so well done. Seen with poke-3.0:
>
> $ poke -l /tmp/fuzz1.pk 
> 1:1: internal compiler error: input buffer overflow, can't enlarge buffer 
> because scanner uses REJECT
> Important information has been dumped in /tmp/pokecyGfH0.
> Please attach it to a bug report and send it to poke-devel@gnu.org.
> Aborted
>
> Credit: AFL++4.00.c

Yes we are aware of that.

It is a fatal error that flex generates when it needs to grow a buffer
but the lexer uses REJECT (as in our case).