bug#39962: 27.0.90; Crash in Emacs 27.0.90

[Pieter van Oostrum]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

>> From: Pieter van Oostrum <pieter-l@vanoostrum.org>
>> Cc: pipcet@gmail.com,  39962@debbugs.gnu.org,  eggert@cs.ucla.edu
>> Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2020 22:35:23 +0100
>> 
>> >> My ulimit -s was 8192 (8 MiBi if I am correct).
>> >
>> > But does that mean Emacs can really use that much stack space?
>> 
>> I don't know. If not, would that be an Emacs problem or a MacOS problem? And 
>> how can I find out?
>
> I'm not familiar enough with Binutils (or their equivalent) on macOS,
> but if you put a breakpoint around line 1167 in emacs.c, you should be
> able to examine the amount of stack returned by getrlimit.  Assuming
> that code gets compiled on your system, that is.

Thanks.

line 1167: rlim_t lim = rlim.rlim_cur;
gives the new maximum that I specified with ulimit -s (67104768). So I can redo 
the test with that limit. But first get some night rest.
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