Re: Avoid C stack overflow

[Stefan]

> Emacs already has a stack-overflow prevention mechanism, right?

Yes.

> And we're talking about what to do when the user deliberately disables
> it? So the simplest answer is "don't do that".

Actually, when we bump into something like max-lisp-eval-depth, we
could look at the actual C stack size to compute the average "C stack
usage per Lisp eval depth" and from that compute a approximate upper
bound on the maximum safe value of max-lisp-eval-depth.


        Stefan