On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 08:34:53PM +0100, Mark Baker wrote: > On 27 Sep 2014, at 16:10, Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson <ojs...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > The package fails to build on hurd because the pthread stack size in > > only 2024 kb instead of the 8192 kb that linux has. > > > > Would it be a good idea to use the heap instead of the stack to fix > > this? > > I have considered using this anyway, to fix the many bug reports where > pathological input can cause it to crash. > > I think now that, with the limit recursion feature and pcre_dfa_exec() I can > close those bugs or re-assign them back to the applications. > > I'm not averse to using the heap for recursion on hurd if that's what you > guys decide is the best option. I don't see any reason why it has to be the > same on hurd as it is on linux. I'll go with what you decide. > > But it sounds like you've decided not to do this and to increase the stack > space instead. In that case can I close this bug? > Yes, I think this bug can be closed, the 1.8.35-3 version shows up in my hurd apt-cache policy libpcre3 at least.
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