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bug#46916: 28.0.50; pure_alloc(10424, ...) fails badly when pure space i


From: Stefan Kangas
Subject: bug#46916: 28.0.50; pure_alloc(10424, ...) fails badly when pure space is exhausted
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2021 19:56:42 -0700
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/29.0.50 (gnu/linux)

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
>> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 12:44:49 +0000
>>
>> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 12:26 PM Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Pure space should be removed. But until it is, it shouldn't exhaust
>> > all virtual memory, crashing the machines of the unwary ones who tried
>> > to build emacs without a ulimit...
>>
>> This minimal patch "fixes" the issue here, by throwing a fatal error
>> in this unusual and avoidable situation. No new test as not testable.
>
> Just enlarge the pure space amount, and be done with it.  That's what
> we always do when this happens.

There's a patch here that was never installed.  Eli didn't sound to
enthusiastic.  Is there anything more left to do here, or should this
just be closed?  Or should purespace be enlarged?





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