From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
To: Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com>
Cc: 30675@debbugs.gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org
Subject: bug#30675: Ask the user what to do when shr-make-table: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size
Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2018 14:32:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sh7z8ex7.fsf@mouse.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87zi27jo92.fsf@gmail.com> (Noam Postavsky's message of "Fri, 13 Apr 2018 08:15:53 -0400")
Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> writes:
> The default stack size soft ulimit on GNU/Linux seems to be 8MB, Emacs
> tries to increase the limit by some fixed amount. It can be set to
> unlimited (I wouldn't expect most users to do that though). On macOS,
> there seems to be a hard limit of 64MB, so setting to unlimited doesn't
> work.
I see.
> Recent changes to Emacs have caused `read' to use more stack space, so
> it's definitely possible to hit the limits when reading a deeply nested
> structure (see bugs #27571 and #27779). Not sure how likely it is when
> reading deeply nested HTML, but I'm sure if you increase
> max-specpdl-size enough with the right HTML page you can manage it :)
Yeah, and that makes me want to query the user even less. Emacs: "Do
this thing you have no idea what is?" User: "Yes." Emacs: *CRASH*.
So perhaps we should just leave things be and not increase the variable
and not prompt the user...
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
bloggy blog: http://lars.ingebrigtsen.no
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2018-03-02 2:40 ` bug#30675: Ask the user what to do when shr-make-table: Variable binding depth exceeds max-specpdl-size 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-03-02 2:51 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-12 23:49 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 0:06 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2018-04-13 0:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 9:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-13 11:48 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 12:15 ` Noam Postavsky
2018-04-13 12:32 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen [this message]
2018-04-13 12:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-13 15:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-15 17:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2018-04-13 12:40 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
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