Re: Setting RLIMIT_STACK

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2010-07-17 at 02:22 -0300, Alberto Bertogli wrote:
> So I was wondering what was the reason for that rlimit, and if perhaps
> it could be avoided to prevent this behaviour change.

It was added a number of years ago by Paul Eggert, because make makes
extensive use of alloca() and some larger, more complex makefiles might
run into problems.

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.

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