Re: Re: alloca() problem
| From: | Ilia Alshanetsky | Date: | Wed, 16 Jun 2004 16:21:47 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: alloca() problem | ||
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On June 16, 2004 12:15 pm, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Ilia Alshanetsky wrote:
> > PHP5/Interbase: too many arguments passed to some functions.
>
> The function in question alloca()tes a 4 pointers times the number of
> args which is kept in an unsigned short. This means the allocated memory
> can at most be 1M.
>
> While this seems a lot to allocate on the stack, I think it shouldn't be
> problem.
True, but if PHP is as an apache module several simultaneous call could very
well exhaust the stack.
Ilia