bug#54698: non-recursive GC marking [PATCH]

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philipp Stephani <p.stephani2@gmail.com>
> Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2022 14:31:17 +0200
> Cc: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org>, 
>       Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>, Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 
> 54698@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> > You mean, Emacs fails to know when it approaches the memory limit,
> > and/or react reasonably when memory_full is called?  That'd be a bug,
> > IMO.
> 
> I think this is just how modern OSes behave: they will happily hand
> out arbitrary amounts of memory and then kill processes without
> warning if they use too much memory. By design, there's nothing these
> processes can do about that.

That's not my experience.