From: Stefan <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 12:45:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv61ngafy4.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <53230AA9.6030005@cs.ucla.edu> (Paul Eggert's message of "Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:56:57 -0700")
> Emacs already has a stack-overflow prevention mechanism, right?
Yes.
> And we're talking about what to do when the user deliberately disables
> it? So the simplest answer is "don't do that".
Actually, when we bump into something like max-lisp-eval-depth, we
could look at the actual C stack size to compute the average "C stack
usage per Lisp eval depth" and from that compute a approximate upper
bound on the maximum safe value of max-lisp-eval-depth.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-14 16:45 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
2014-03-14 13:56 ` Paul Eggert
2014-03-14 16:45 ` Stefan [this message]
2014-03-15 1:38 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
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