--- orig/o/alloc.c
+++ mod/o/alloc.c
@@ -732,7 +732,19 @@
   
   if (initialized) return;
   initialized=1;
-  
+
+#if defined(BSD) && defined(RLIMIT_STACK)
+  /* Maybe the soft limit for data segment size is lower than the
+   * hard limit.  In that case, we want as much as possible.
+   */
+  getrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, &data_rlimit);
+  if (data_rlimit.rlim_cur != RLIM_INFINITY &&
+      (data_rlimit.rlim_max == RLIM_INFINITY ||
+       data_rlimit.rlim_max > data_rlimit.rlim_cur)) {
+    data_rlimit.rlim_cur = data_rlimit.rlim_max;
+    setrlimit(RLIMIT_DATA, &data_rlimit);
+  }
+#endif
   
 #ifndef DONT_NEED_MALLOC