Hi Geoff,
"Geoff M. Granum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on
07/05/2007 10:17:42 PM:
> Hello Michael,
>
> Everything works so far, with the exception of UNION, which technically
> works fine but exposes an infinite loop bug which was being broken by a
> stack overflow before.
>
> The regex: (((((boy)|(girl))[0-1][x-z]{2})?)|(man|woman)[0-1]?[y|n])*
> With Target: boy0xxwoman1ygirl1xyman
>
> Loops forever (the ending is invalid, needs [0-1]?[y|n] ). Well, forever
> being 'until you run out of memory'. I didn't notice this until I set my
> memory back to a reasonable size, as I had the -Xmx flag set to a GB
> earlier for some playing.
>
> So the options are
> a. ) Fix it. Being a serious edge case, I'm thinking this isn't really
> worth the risk. More bluntly, it would take me far more time than I want
> to spend on it to become comfortable with any fix I might produce.
>
> b. ) Ignore the case (let the system die of OOM *eventually*,
recognizing
> your CPU will be pegged for a while before this happens)
>
> c. ) Throw an exception if the stack depth gets to some crazy level (a
> million deep, for instance), perhaps adding a System variable to set the
> allowable depth.
>
> d. ) Other?
I would go with option d: open a new JIRA issue [1] to make folks aware
that this is a bug. Perhaps someone will fix it one day.
> For reference, using the standard JVM (no flags, 64MB heap space, IIRC),
I
> can check the DNA string appended to itself ~425 times before reaching a
> depth of a million stack elements. DNA_STRING is 2273 characters long.
>
> I run out of memory (heap space) around 650*DNA_STRING, with a depth of
> 1,477,450. (the string being 1,477,450 characters long... big shock).
Cool. That's leaps and bounds better than the current code. I think folks
were getting the stack overflow with around 2000 to 3000 characters
(without increasing the stack size from the default).
> DNA String runs out of memory very quickly, whereas the above regex is
> pretty slow about it because it pushes and pops a huge number of stack
> items, *eventually* achieving an overflow. The DNA string pushes items
> until it gets an answer, then backs out in the same order.
>
> Also, and oddly, the 'CAPTURE' option doesn't get hit a single time in
the
> 7000 or so regex tests provided by the W3C group. Testing it with the
full
> suite, which takes a painfully long time.
>
> I'm moving into optimization mode now that the regex tests check out;
once
> I hear back as to how the group wants the new bug handled, I'll
implement
> it and post the code for review.
>
> Oh, did you want the Test Suite code I had to implement? There's a lot
of
> generics code in it, and it's incredibly hackish, but it's free to
whoever
> wants it. It is by no means robust nor complete. IntelliJ has an 'Export
> to Eclipse' setting for modules, if that interests you.
If your test suite can be back-ported to Java 1.3 perhaps it could be
included with the other sanity/unit tests which run off the build.xml
'test' target.
> Cheers,
> --
> Geoff M. Granum
> Portland, Oregon
Thanks.
[1] http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/XERCESJ
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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