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Set the process‐wide default evaluation recursion depth limit.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bdlpcre_regex.h>`

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static
int
setDefaultDepthLimit(int depthLimit);
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== Description

Set the process‐wide default evaluation recursion depth limit to the specified `depthLimit`. Return the previous depth limit.

== Return Value

previous process‐wide default depth limit

== Parameters

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| Name| Description
| *depthLimit*
| new process‐wide default depth limit
|===


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