Re: bug#6214: 23.1; json-read-string crashes emacs with long string

Subject: Re: bug#6214: 23.1; json-read-string crashes emacs with long string

Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2010 12:27:25 -0400

To: Stefan Monnier

Cc: 6214@debbugs.gnu.org, Notmuch mailing list

From: Chong Yidong

Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com> writes:

> Hmm, there is a problem, though.  If we attempt to avoid a stack
> overflow in `apply' by using the heap rather than the stack to store
> large numbers of arguments, those arguments are invisible to the
> stack-marking gargbage collector.

Never mind, I got confused.  SAFE_ALLOCA uses record_unwind_protect, so
it's gc safe.

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