From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
To: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Enlarge MAX_ALLOCA?
Date: Fri, 20 Jun 2014 10:08:02 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87bnto6m1p.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 83ha3grr8f.fsf@gnu.org
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
>> Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:13:47 +0200
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
>>
>> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>
>> >> 64kB feels arbitrary. I cannot really think of an architecture where
>> >> 64kB would be feasible and 128kB not. ±32kB is a plausible offset for
>> >> some architectures.
>> >
>> > This has nothing to do with machine architectures.
>> > It's only related to the OS chosen size of the stack.
>>
>> It would be "only related to stack size" when there was a strictly
>> limited number of alloca allocations in the whole call stack since the
>> limit is per alloca, not per Emacs invocation.
>
> I'm not sure I follow your reasoning. Can you elaborate, please?
I don't see that anything I say would register, so I don't see the point
in further wasting my time.
--
David Kastrup
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-06-20 8:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-06-19 16:02 Enlarge MAX_ALLOCA? Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 16:23 ` David Kastrup
2014-06-19 16:48 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 17:04 ` David Kastrup
2014-06-19 17:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 17:36 ` David Kastrup
2014-06-19 17:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 18:21 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 21:13 ` David Kastrup
2014-06-20 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 8:08 ` David Kastrup [this message]
2014-06-20 8:38 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-20 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 9:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-06-20 9:38 ` David Kastrup
2014-06-19 18:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-19 18:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-19 20:37 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20 7:08 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 13:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20 13:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 14:43 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-20 14:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-20 15:15 ` Herring, Davis
2014-06-20 15:44 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-06-20 18:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 13:01 ` K. Handa
2014-06-21 13:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 17:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2014-06-22 9:22 ` K. Handa
2014-06-28 14:15 ` K. Handa
2014-06-28 14:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-06-21 15:19 ` David Kastrup
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