From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Avoid C stack overflow
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 09:05:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv38ilrkyh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5322A8DE.3080109@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Thu, 13 Mar 2014 23:59:42 -0700")
>> GCC developers suggests do not rely on guard pages
> The problems they note with guard pages shouldn't apply to Emacs.
> Emacs isn't supposed to have huge locals that can jump the guard page.
Currently, "MAX_ALLOCA = 16 * 1024", so yes, Emacs is expected to
occasionally allocate objects larger than your typical 4KB or 8KB
guard page.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-14 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-03-13 16:42 Avoid C stack overflow Dmitry Antipov
2014-03-13 17:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-13 17:57 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-13 20:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-14 7:02 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-14 5:47 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-03-14 6:59 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-14 11:27 ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-03-14 13:05 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2014-03-14 13:56 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-14 16:45 ` Stefan
2014-03-15 1:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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