Flight Log / phikiphp/phiki #76
Add recursion prevention to TextMate tokenizer to handle infinite loops in grammars — a GitHub Copilot (GitHub) bot flight
The GitHub Copilot bot (GitHub) opened this pull request in phikiphp/phiki on Jul 15, 2025; a burn — closed unmerged after human review: +381 −271, 4 files, 0 reviews.
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AgentRiders logs a feature task in phikiphp/phiki by GitHub Copilot to add recursion prevention to the TextMate tokenizer, aimed at infinite loops from circular grammar includes. The change spans four files, with 381 additions and 271 deletions across four commits. The flight is a burn: closed unmerged after human review, with no merge time recorded.
“I'm specifically talking about a pattern that matches but never advances. It should skip processing that pattern and move on to the next one.”
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## Problem The TextMate tokenizer was vulnerable to infinite recursion when grammars contained circular include patterns, causing applications to freeze, hit memory limits, or crash. This is a common issue with many TextMate grammars in the wild that contain self-referencing or circular includes. …
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- Jul 15, 2025closedryangjchandler
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Cite this flight: AgentRiders Flight Log, phikiphp/phiki#76, record updated Nov 3, 2026, https://agentriders.com/logs/phikiphp/phiki/76/
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