Fix for Bug#5526.

* charset.c (load_charset_map_from_file): Allocate large
charset_map_entries structure on the heap rather than the stack.
(Bug#5526).

2 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/src/ChangeLog b/src/ChangeLog
index 7277400a0f1..f1f4aa24b35 100644
--- a/src/ChangeLog
+++ b/src/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-02-05  Chong Yidong  <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
+
+        * charset.c (load_charset_map_from_file): Allocate large
+        charset_map_entries structure on the heap rather than the stack.
+        (Bug#5526).
+
 2010-01-31  Kenichi Handa  <handa@m17n.org>
 
         * font.c (font_parse_xlfd): If FONT is a font-entity and pixel
diff --git a/src/charset.c b/src/charset.c
index 0f6bb4f0906..9e8ff1d59c9 100644
--- a/src/charset.c
+++ b/src/charset.c
@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ load_charset_map_from_file (charset, mapfile, control_flag)
     error ("Failure in loading charset map: %S", SDATA (mapfile));
 
   head = entries = ((struct charset_map_entries *)
-                    alloca (sizeof (struct charset_map_entries)));
+                    xmalloc (sizeof (struct charset_map_entries)));
   n_entries = 0;
   eof = 0;
   while (1)
@@ -563,6 +563,7 @@ load_charset_map_from_file (charset, mapfile, control_flag)
   close (fd);
 
   load_charset_map (charset, head, n_entries, control_flag);
+  xfree (head);
 }
 
 static void