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Re: NL_TEXTMAX == INT_MAX?

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 08:10:57PM -0700, Geoff Keating wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 16 May 2000 17:24:23 -0700
> > From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org>
> 
> > 	char msg [NL_TEXTMAX];
> 
> Such programs are broken.  It's just like the same thing with
> PATH_MAX.

With PATH_MAX, I would expect I could create a pathname length up to
PATH_MAX.

> 
> > I won't buy you can create a message with INT_MAX bytes.
> 
> I expect on an Alpha you can...  and will it really help if NL_TEXTMAX
> is, say, (1 << 30)?

Yes, it may be reasonable, which I doubt, for 64bit machines if you
have enough memory and/or swap space. But I won't call it reasonable
for 32bit machines. If you think it is reasonable, try to generate such
a message on both 64bit and 32bit machines.


H.J.
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