Re: MAX_ARRLEN

[Bart Schaefer <schaefer@brasslantern.com>]

On Apr 23,  4:27pm, Peter Stephenson wrote:
}
} What's the right thing to do?  There are various grades ranging from
} making it compilable out, through making it compile-time configurable
} with an option to compile out, through making it an option to have the
} check turned on, to having a variable that we check using getiparam()
} each time, to having a special variable so that we don't need to get it
} each time.  I think the last option with a clearly named variable such
} as ZSH_MAX_ARRAY_LENGTH that can be set to 0 to turn it off is probably
} the best.

I think something based on one of the process limits would be good.
Maybe combined with stashing it in a variable that can be modified.
Maybe even putting that variable in a module so it's not visible in a
barebones shell.

datasize, stacksize, and addressspace are all candidates for how to
figure out the limit.  (Do we ever allocate arrays for zsh parameter
expansion on the stack?)