Re: Setting RLIMIT_STACK

[Paul Smith]

On Mon, 2010-07-19 at 11:29 +0200, Edward Welbourne wrote:
> > 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

Yes, unpleasant for sure.  Luckly GNU make doesn't use *scanf() much at
all and were it does only in fairly well-defined situations.

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