Re: Emacs on QNX

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Elad Lahav <address@hidden>
> Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2017 17:17:43 +0000
> Cc: "address@hidden" <address@hidden>
> 
> I forgot to mention that I did investigate the problem. The recursion
> is not infinite, just very deep. In QNX all stack sizes are fixed,
> including that of the main thread. The default size for the main thread
> is 512K, but some elisp modules (e.g., verilog) require more in version
> 26 to compile. There is no such problem in the 25.x code. I wonder if
> the modules themselves have changed, or something else is causing more
> stack space to be used.
> I can work around the problem by increasing the stack size of the main
> thread, but it would be nice to understand the increase in stack usage.

I think you definitely need to increase the stack.  Emacs needs at
least 2MB of stack space; on MS-Windows we use 8MB, and for a good
reason.  So 512K is definitely too little.