Re: [patch #6569] Allow grep to work in small stack environment

[Jim Meyering]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> On 08/27/2010 01:39 AM, Jim Meyering wrote:
>
>>   - use xnmalloc, not malloc+test+return, so we don't ignore malloc failure.
>>   - use sizeof *VAR, not "sizeof TYPE" -- the former is more maintainable.
>>   - adjust indentation to retain declaration alignment
>
> There are many places in other GNU apps, including gnulib, where
> it's assumed that one can declare a 4 kB-or-so array on the stack without
> any problem.  So I'm surprised to see the need for this change to GNU grep.
> Surely we don't need to go through GNU apps and rejigger things for
> configurations with 4 kB stacks?  By today's standards, such stacks are
> ridiculously small.

Patrick,

For our reference, on what system does this change help you?