rws@EXPO.LCS.MIT.EDU (Bob Scheifler) (03/31/89)
re: Sun server crashing when given lots of lines Your server is probably running with a restricted stack space (e.g. 512K). Your server is almost certainly compiled to use stack allocation for temporary objects, and apparently whatever version of alloca() you (and I) are using doesn't have the courtesy of returning NULL when the stack is exceeded. You have a couple of options: Find a way to unlimit or increase the stack size of the server. (We'll do this for R4.) Recompile the server to not use alloca().