[RFA] Crasher bug in infptrace.c

Michael Snyder msnyder@redhat.com
Mon Dec 31 12:03:00 GMT 2001


Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> 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.

Good idea, but it will require additional work (such as
using configure to determine whether getrlimit is supported).
May I suggest that this patch be accepted until someone
volunteers to do a better one?


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

Does djgpp use infptrace?



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