Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] matlab-shell segfaults with matlab R2016b on Mac OS 10.11.6 Emacs 25.1

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Hello again,

I’ve been watching progress in development around this Mac/Emacs/MATLAB issue.   They have identified that the reason MATLAB is crashing in Emacs, but not on the command line is because Emacs is setting the stack size.  A way to reproduce outside of Emacs is as follows:

ulimit -s 8515
matlab

Stacks limited to sizes of 8512 or more works fine for them.

I looked into stack size within emacs, and saw several references to increasing the stack size to 8519 in Emacs to work around a bug I’m not familiar with, but not to a way to increase the stack size of sub-processes.

Any Emacs hackers on this list familiar with updating stack size for sub-processes in Emacs as a way to work around this problem?
Thanks
Eric

From: Peter Mao [mailto:pet...@gm...]
Sent: Monday, November 14, 2016 11:18 AM
To: mat...@li...
Subject: Re: [Matlab-emacs-discuss] matlab-shell segfaults with matlab R2016b on Mac OS 10.11.6 Emacs 25.1

Further evidence (I hope this helps someone solve the problem):
1. 2016b works in NONE of the emacs terminals: shell, term or e-shell.
2. 2016b works fine (even with -nodesktop) from Xquartz's xterm or OSX's terminal
3. 2016a works fine in emacs
4. Running diff on the java directories (where the potentially offending files reside) shows NO difference between 2016a and 2016b!
    $ diff -ur /Applications/MATLAB_R2016b.app/sys/java /Applications/MATLAB_R2016a.app/sys/java
This might not be a Java issue.

On Thu, Nov 10, 2016 at 7:37 PM, Peter Mao <pet...@gm...<mailto:pet...@gm...>> wrote:
Yes, I'm seeing this problem, too.  Mathworks won't touch it, as it does seem to be a real third party issue with Emacs.
I'm having the problem with OSX 10.12 and Emacs 25.1.1, although it was also present with my previous emacs (24.5?).
I checked the environment variables, and the only thing I see significantly different is that emacs shell reports as TERM=dumb, while the Xquartz one is TERM=xterm and apple's terminal is TERM=xterm-256color.
In all cases, the actual shell is /bin/bash.  I'm guessing this has something to do with how emacs is setting up the shell, but I can't figure out what the issue is, exactly.  May be time to cross post to emacs developers.
Peter