Re: [PATCH] Allow inserting non-BMP characters

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Philipp Stephani <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 28 Dec 2017 12:31:39 +0000
> Cc: address@hidden, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> Alan Third <address@hidden> schrieb am Do., 28. Dez. 2017 um 12:38 Uhr:
> 
>  On Wed, Dec 27, 2017 at 05:41:23AM +0200, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>  > What about the possibility that SAFE_NALLOCA could signal an error and
>  > longjmp to top level?  Does this code always run in the main thread,
>  > and if so, can it allow such longjmp's?
> 
>  I think it does always run in the main thread, however since it runs
>  within the NSApplication run loop I’ve no idea what would happen if we
>  did a longjmp.
> 
> We should probably avoid longjmps here. This message is invoked by the window 
> manager, which most likely
> can't deal with longjmps. 

Then maybe process the input in chunks using a fixed-size buffer?