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bug #11737: Grammatica 1.4 runs into an stack overflow error

Submitter:  Michael Knaup <mknaup>
Submitted:  Wed 26 Jan 2005 09:55:28 AM UTC
   
 
Severity:  2 - Normal Item Group:  Software
Status:  Fixed Assigned to:  cederberg
Open/Closed:  Closed

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Sat 14 Mar 2009 09:34:39 AM UTC, comment #6: 

Version 1.5 was released on 2009-03-07. Closing this issue.

Per Cederberg <cederberg>
Group administrator
Tue 24 Feb 2009 10:16:45 PM UTC, comment #5: 

This is fixed in subversion trunk, since the implementation now uses a memory-conservative NFA implementation for most regular expresions. This should avoid any stack overflows when parsing complex regexes with long matches.

Will be released in version 1.5.beta1.

Per Cederberg <cederberg>
Group administrator
Sat 21 May 2005 09:39:23 PM UTC, comment #4: 

Ok, the issue was in the StringLiteral production with a quote char mismatch with the [^\"] part. By adding a single \' character at the end of the line, the grammar is parsed with the correct error messages.

The reason for the stack overflow then, is the Grammatica regular expression (RE) interpreter. This interpreter is currently based on recursive calls, so it cannot match infinitely large regular expression strings. The stack overflow occured as the number of characters matched by the regular expression (in this case \'[^\']*\') grew beyond the maximum limit.

It seems the default stack size is smaller on JDK 5.0/Windows than on JDK 1.4/Linux, which is the reason for not being able to reproduce this problem previously. Anyway, this is clearly a limitation in the Grammatica RE implementation and as such should be fixed.

The solution is to completely rewrite the RE interpreter to use a limited amount of stack and heap memory. This is unfortunately not trivial and will not happen within a short timeframe. Bug #8202 describes the conversion of the existing RE implementation into a NFA, which is probably the best solution to this issue.

This bug has been marked postponed and as dependent on #8202.

Per Cederberg <cederberg>
Group administrator
Sat 21 May 2005 08:54:38 PM UTC, comment #3: 

Sorry about that, reopening this bug. Just found the mail with the full test code. Also managed to reproduce this with JDK 5.0 on Windows XP.

Per Cederberg <cederberg>
Group administrator
Sat 21 May 2005 08:21:57 PM UTC, comment #2: 

Closing this bug as I cannot reproduce this error. I need the xpath1.grammar file that exposed this problem in order to localize it.

Per Cederberg <cederberg>
Group administrator
Wed 26 Jan 2005 02:45:49 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Thanks for the bug report. Could you please also attach or send me the erroneous grammar file so that I can have a look at it? I suspect the grammar contains some error, but Grammatica should of course report that properly and not be throwing exceptions around.

Per Cederberg <cederberg>
Group administrator
Wed 26 Jan 2005 09:55:28 AM UTC, original submission:  

Trying to create a c# parser for xpath grammar grammatica runs into an endless loop which causes a stack overflow. The output is as follows:
E:\Tools\grammatica-1.4>java -jar lib\grammatica-1.4.jar test\src\grammar\xpath1.grammar --csoutput test\xpath --csnamespace XPATHGrammar
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.StackOverflowError
        at java.util.ArrayList.get(Unknown Source)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.CharacterSetElement.inUserSet(C
haracterSetElement.java:323)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.CharacterSetElement.inSet(Chara
cterSetElement.java:229)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.CharacterSetElement.match(Chara
cterSetElement.java:207)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.RepeatElement.findMatches(Repea
tElement.java:309)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.RepeatElement.findMatches(Repea
tElement.java:321)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.RepeatElement.findMatches(Repea
tElement.java:321)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.RepeatElement.findMatches(Repea
tElement.java:321)
        at net.percederberg.grammatica.parser.re.RepeatElement.findMatches(Repea
tElement.java:321)

I can't find the java source to correct my grammar or the software problem. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Michael

Michael Knaup <mknaup>

 

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    Date Changed by Updated Field Previous Value => Replaced by
    2009-03-14 cederberg Open/ClosedOpen Closed
        Discussion LockNone Locked
    2009-02-24 cederberg StatusPostponed Fixed
    2005-05-21 cederberg Severity5 - Major 2 - Normal
        StatusNone Postponed
        Dependencies- Depends on bugs #8202
    2005-05-21 cederberg StatusNeed Info None
        Open/ClosedClosed Open
    2005-05-21 cederberg StatusNone Need Info
        Assigned toNone cederberg
        Open/ClosedOpen Closed

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