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Re: Enlarge MAX_ALLOCA?


From: David Kastrup
Subject: Re: Enlarge MAX_ALLOCA?
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2014 23:13:47 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.4.50 (gnu/linux)

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> 64kB feels arbitrary.  I cannot really think of an architecture where
>> 64kB would be feasible and 128kB not.  ±32kB is a plausible offset for
>> some architectures.
>
> This has nothing to do with machine architectures.
> It's only related to the OS chosen size of the stack.

It would be "only related to stack size" when there was a strictly
limited number of alloca allocations in the whole call stack since the
limit is per alloca, not per Emacs invocation.

-- 
David Kastrup



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