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Re: Setting RLIMIT_STACK


From: Edward Welbourne
Subject: Re: Setting RLIMIT_STACK
Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 11:29:00 +0200

> Probably there should be an effort to switch to heap for anything that
> might get large and reserve alloca() usage just for things we know for a
> fact will not get too large, but that hasn't been done.

... and anywhere you use a scanf variant, glibc is also using
alloca(), without knowing any bound:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=553206

        Eddy.



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