Bug#216849: [sparc] Re: Bug#216849: relocation overflow error

[Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>]

This is a bug in the code. Too much allocation on the stack:

int read_infos (int socket_data, char **infos) {
    int  nb;
    char datas[SSIZE_MAX];

    /* SSIZE_MAX = 2147483647 */

That's 2 gigs of stack allocation...not likely to happen :) It produces
this overflow of stack in assembly:

read_infos:
.LLFB46:
	.loc 1 197 0
	!#PROLOGUE# 0
	save    %sp, --2147483544, %sp

Notice the double negative, produces by overflowing the stack pointer,
which only uses, internally, a signed int. That is plenty enough to hold
a normal, legal stack, but not really enough for your needs.

If you need that much (I can't see that you would), then malloc it.

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