bug#46916: 28.0.50; pure_alloc(10424, ...) fails badly when pure space is exhausted

[Pip Cet]

On Sun, Oct 31, 2021 at 2:56 AM Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> wrote:
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> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
> >> From: Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com>
> >> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 2021 12:44:49 +0000
> >>
> >> On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 12:26 PM Pip Cet <pipcet@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> > Pure space should be removed. But until it is, it shouldn't exhaust
> >> > all virtual memory, crashing the machines of the unwary ones who tried
> >> > to build emacs without a ulimit...
> >>
> >> This minimal patch "fixes" the issue here, by throwing a fatal error
> >> in this unusual and avoidable situation. No new test as not testable.
> >
> > Just enlarge the pure space amount, and be done with it.  That's what
> > we always do when this happens.
>
> There's a patch here that was never installed.  Eli didn't sound to
> enthusiastic.  Is there anything more left to do here, or should this
> just be closed?  Or should purespace be enlarged?

I think Eli's suggestion was sarcastic, but I'm not sure.

I have no objections to this report being closed, in case that's
relevant: it's a clear bug but Eli appears to prefer not to fix it,
and I can live with that. In fact, isn't that what WONTFIX is for?

Thanks for taking the time to look into these issues!

Pip