Re: garbage collector infloop in 21.4.9 and 21.5beta4 on MacOS 10.2

Skip> My stack size is 512KB. Stephen> Way too small. Stack limitation is the root of all crashes, I Stephen> think. ;-) Stephen> There has been discussion of using getrlimit to check and set Stephen> stack size; I think I'll push that issue, at least in the devel Stephen> branch. Failing that, maybe a platform-specific note in the installation instructions identifying this particular MacOS X shortcoming would be a good idea (though I will admit I didn't check there before mailing, assuming incorrectly that there was something about XEmacs or the compiler that was causing the problem). I hadn't fiddled my stack size, so presumably everyone gets that as the default on MacOS X. (It does seem a tad feeble on a machine which comes with 512MB of RAM and can carry 1GB.) Looking back now, I see the PROBLEMS file does have a note about small stack size on various DEC environments. I may well have missed that even if I'd looked. I would probably have searched for "macos" or "darwin". No crashes so far w/ 8192KB stack size, btw. Skip