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Re: A patch for libio/tst-widetext.c

To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at cygnus dot com>
Subject: Re: A patch for libio/tst-widetext.c
From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Date: Tue, 1 Aug 2000 10:39:17 -0700
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
References: <20000801091105.A23997@lucon.org> <m31z087ura.fsf@otr.mynet.cygnus.com>

On Tue, Aug 01, 2000 at 10:31:53AM -0700, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> "H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> 
> > The problem is libio/tst-widetext.c uses too much stack memory for
> > buffer. With my kernel, running through make will push it over the
> > hard limit on my stack. This patch seems to fix it for me.
> 
> What kind of kernel do you have?  In all parts of the system we are
> expecting some space available on the stack.  If tst-wideext fails it
> means you have less then 2MB.

My kernel is something very similar to RedHat 7.0 beta. It may also
have something to do with bash 2.04 and make 3.79.1 in RedHat 7.0 beta.

BTW, I have mentioned that it is ok to run by hand. It fails only
when it is run through make.

H.J.

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