234952 - comment end are not recognized when - (minus) signs are in a comment

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: HTML Parser, defect)

Description

[Dennis Birkholz]

User-Agent:       
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-AT; rv:1.6) Gecko/20040113

This problems looks like it has a cycle in it.
If you have a comment in your page and one of the following string of
minus-signs as the comment text the rest of the page will not be shown.

-----------------------------------
----------------------------------
-------------------------------
------------------------------
---------------------------
--------------------------
-----------------------
----------------------
-------------------
------------------
---------------
--------------
-----------
----------
-------
------
---
--

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Dennis Birkholz]

Attachment: This file has the bug inside

I copied this HTML-File from the CD-ROM distribution of the mathematics book
"Bronstein, u.a.: Mathematik" © 2000 by Verlag Harri Deutsch AG Thun

You can replace the "---" string in the first comment by one of the
minus-string I posted before and the error is present.

There are other comments in this file that create the same error.

If you delete some parts of this file, the error may not be there any more.

Comment 2

[timeless]

This isn't a bug. You could contact the publisher and explain that the
publisher's content is incorrect.

see: bug 180752, bug 210759 and many others

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Verified.  Please read what the HTML spec has to say about comments....