From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Mon, 3 Feb 1997 02:51:09 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (main): Don't extend stack limit too far.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.1~2977
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=509a8fcde89b144b6638693f1bbeb854e7aa492c;p=emacs.git

(main): Don't extend stack limit too far.
---

diff --git a/src/emacs.c b/src/emacs.c
index 7349a21698d..d98c30463f7 100644
--- a/src/emacs.c
+++ b/src/emacs.c
@@ -553,7 +553,14 @@ main (argc, argv, envp)
   /* Extend the stack space available.  */
   if (!getrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim))
     {
-      rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max;
+      long newlim;
+      /* Approximate the amount regex.c needs, plus some more.  */
+      newlim = 800000 * sizeof (char *);
+      if (newlim > rlim.rlim_max)
+	newlim = rlim.rlim_max;
+      if (rlim.rlim_cur < newlim)
+	rlim.rlim_cur = newlim;
+
       setrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
     }
 #endif