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Re: [RFA] Crasher bug in infptrace.c



On Sun, 30 Dec 2001, Michael Snyder wrote:

> + /* Set an upper limit on alloca.  */
> + #ifndef GDB_MAX_ALLOCA
> + #define GDB_MAX_ALLOCA 0x100000
> + #endif

Isn't it better to use `getrlimit' to find out the max stack size, than 
to set up arbitrary limits (and proliferate system-specific definitions 
of GDB_MAX_ALLOCA)?  At least on systems where `getrlimit' is available, 
I think we should use it.

(FWIW, 1MB is too large for DJGPP, whose runtime stack defaults to 
512KB.  `getrlimit' is supported, so it will tell.)


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