On Mon, 26 Aug 2019, I wrote: > On Sun, 18 Aug 2019, ND via Pcre-dev wrote: > > > May be when meet (*ACCEPT) find_minlength must simply drop further > > calculations for current branch. So the current value of "branchlength" will > > be immediately considered as a minimum length of whole branch. > > That was not easily possible in the past, but recently there was some > work done which might make it simple to do now. I will look further at > this.
I've realized why this won't work. The problem is that ACCEPT may occur in branches that are not scanned. It needs far too much analysis. Consider: /A(B(*ACCEPT)C)?DEF/ When computing the minimum length, the code will skip the group altogether, because it has a minimum repeat of 0. It will end up with a minimum length of 4, which of course is wrong. Philip -- Philip Hazel -- ## List details at https://lists.exim.org/mailman/listinfo/pcre-dev
