Hi,

Paul D. Smith wrote:
 
> I don't think I'll use this exact patch, since putting 0x30000 chars on
> the stack doesn't seem like a good idea... plus the chance that a rule
> needs 0x10000 chars for its prerequisites list seems very small to me.

Well, the exact amount allocated on the stack is easily configurable by
the three #defines I added to the top of the file.  The idea is not to
use the heap if we don't have to.

> But I'll do something so that this function doesn't use alloca() and
> fail with large prerequisite lists.

The ability to have a file depend on a lot of other files may be
important to some; all I can say is I'm sure it's important to me.

Thanks,

- Wil


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