5 Patch-ID: readline70-001
7 Bug-Reported-by: Sean Zha <freeman_cha@hotmail.com>
8 Bug-Reference-ID: <BN3PR01MB13657D9303EB94BF6E54216E8CCA0@BN3PR01MB1365.prod.exchangelabs.com>
9 Bug-Reference-URL: http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00107.html
13 Readline-7.0 changed the way the history list is initially allocated to reduce
14 the number of reallocations and copies. Users who set the readline
15 history-size variable to a very large number to essentially unlimit the size
16 of the history list will get memory allocation errors
18 Patch (apply with `patch -p0'):
20 *** ../readline-7.0/history.c 2015-12-28 13:50:31.000000000 -0500
21 --- history.c 2016-09-30 14:28:40.000000000 -0400
25 #define DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE 502
27 + #define MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE 8192
29 /* The number of slots to increase the_history by. */
30 #define DEFAULT_HISTORY_GROW_SIZE 50
34 if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
35 ! history_size = history_max_entries + 2;
37 history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
40 if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
41 ! history_size = (history_max_entries > MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE)
42 ! ? MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE
43 ! : history_max_entries + 2;
45 history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
47 *** ../readline-7.0/patchlevel 2013-11-15 08:11:11.000000000 -0500
48 --- patchlevel 2014-03-21 08:28:40.000000000 -0400
51 # Do not edit -- exists only for use by patch
55 # Do not edit -- exists only for use by patch