2 files changed, 13 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 72641f0c91..a0643ca63d 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,7 @@
+Sat Apr 24 14:32:03 2004  Kazuo Saito  <ksaito@uranus.dti.ne.jp>
+
+	* re.c: applied stack error handling patch. [ruby-dev:22431]
+
 Sat Apr 24 10:38:31 2004  Dave Thomas  <dave@pragprog.com>
 
 	* lib/rdoc/markup/simple_markup.rb (SM::SimpleMarkup::group_lines):
diff --git a/re.c b/re.c
index 6a60a099fc..23196bb171 100644
--- a/re.c
+++ b/re.c
@@ -920,14 +920,16 @@ rb_reg_search(re, str, pos, reverse)
     if (FL_TEST(re, KCODE_FIXED))
 	kcode_reset_option();
 
-    if (result == -2) {
-	rb_reg_raise(RREGEXP(re)->str, RREGEXP(re)->len,
-		     "Stack overflow in regexp matcher", re);
-    }
-
     if (result < 0) {
-	rb_backref_set(Qnil);
-	return result;
+      if (result == ONIG_MISMATCH) {
+        rb_backref_set(Qnil);
+        return result;
+      }
+      else {
+        char err[ONIG_MAX_ERROR_MESSAGE_LEN];
+        re_error_code_to_str((UChar* )err, result);
+        rb_reg_raise(RREGEXP(re)->str, RREGEXP(re)->len, err, 0);
+      }
     }
 
     match = rb_backref_get();