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Malte Ubl b424092446 Walk native regex first-byte analysis with a heap worklist
Security review finding (#747): rn_first recursed into every split target
(split_next/split_goto/loop/loop_split). `visited` stops cycles but not
depth, so a flat runtime pattern with a long run of alternatives, such as
new RegExp("(?:" + "|".repeat(n) + "x)"), chains one split per
alternative and recursed once per alternative while the regex was being
constructed (scr_re_native_build runs on every compile), before any
subject is matched. Deep enough patterns could exhaust the C stack of the
thread compiling them.

The analysis is now iterative: split targets go on a heap worklist of
nops + 1 entries allocated next to `visited`. Every op is processed once,
so each split pushes at most one entry, and the accumulated first-byte set,
empty-match and anchor flags do not depend on the visiting order. If the
worklist cannot be allocated the native build fails and the regex keeps
using libregexp, like the other native-build failures. No other function in
scr_regex_native.h recurses on pattern structure.

Tests: corpus 3139 constructs runtime patterns with 30,000-alternative runs
(empty, consuming, word-bounded, capturing, nested-but-flat, global) and
matches ASCII subjects; it matches Node in the plain and sanitized lanes.
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