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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: "memory full" during redisplay
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> Date: Tue, 09 Dec 2014 22:47:52 -0800
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Because that memory reserve is not enough in the use cases I'm talking
> > about.  The code needs more than just that reserve.
> 
> How about if we reserve more memory?  That should be a simple change.

How will we know how much to reserve?  Eventually, there could be a
request for more than we reserved, and we are back to square one.