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From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov@yandex.ru>,
	Emacs development discussions <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Avoid C stack overflow
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 06:56:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <53230AA9.6030005@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwv38ilrkyh.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Currently, "MAX_ALLOCA = 16 * 1024", so yes, Emacs is expected to
> occasionally allocate objects larger than your typical 4KB or 8KB
> guard page.

That's easily fixable by adjusting MAX_ALLOCA down to a bit less than 4 
KiB (which is what Gnulib code does) or by arranging for more guard 
pages than usual (more hassle, but eminently doable on most platforms).

Emacs already has a stack-overflow prevention mechanism, right?  And 
we're talking about what to do when the user deliberately disables it? 
So the simplest answer is "don't do that".



  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-14 13:56 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 [this message]
2014-03-14 16:45           ` Stefan
2014-03-15  1:38             ` Stephen J. Turnbull

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