From: ccos <ccos@...>
Date: 2003-02-27T10:33:23+09:00
Subject: OS X Stack Depth Problem

hello,

using 1.6.7, if i recurse, i can only get to a depth
of about 70. surely this can't be right.
i looked through the list archives
and only found one reference to the
problem by another os x user who had the same
problem, but this was two years ago.
he had found a hack to fix it. (below)
i'm just curious if anybody else
has had this problem and if there
has been some kind of official fix/patch,
or whether the following would be adequate and
not have any unwanted side effects:

in eval.c ... changing this line:

double space = (double)rlim.rlim_cur*0.2;

to this:

double space;
rlim.rlim_cur = rlim.rlim_max;
setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim);
space = (double)rlim.rlim_cur*0.2;

thanks much,
c