Abolish max-specpdl-size (bug#57911)

The max-lisp-eval-depth limit is sufficient to prevent unbounded stack
growth including the specbind stack; simplify matters for the user by
not having them to worry about two different limits.  This change
turns max-specpdl-size into a harmless variable with no effects,
to keep existing code happy.

* lisp/subr.el (max-specpdl-size):
Define as an ordinary (but obsolete) dynamic variable.
* admin/grammars/Makefile.in:
* doc/lispintro/emacs-lisp-intro.texi (Loops & Recursion):
* doc/lispref/control.texi (Cleanups):
* doc/lispref/edebug.texi (Checking Whether to Stop):
* doc/lispref/eval.texi (Eval):
* doc/lispref/variables.texi (Local Variables):
* doc/misc/calc.texi (Recursion Depth):
Update documentation.
* etc/NEWS: Announce.
* src/eval.c
(FletX): Use safe iteration to guard against circular bindings list.
(syms_of_eval): Remove old max-specpdl-size definition.
(init_eval_once, restore_stack_limits, call_debugger)
(signal_or_quit, grow_specpdl_allocation):
* leim/Makefile.in:
* lisp/Makefile.in:
* lisp/calc/calc-stuff.el (calc-more-recursion-depth)
(calc-less-recursion-depth):
* lisp/calc/calc.el (calc-do):
* lisp/cedet/semantic/ede-grammar.el (ede-proj-makefile-insert-rules):
* lisp/cedet/semantic/grammar.el (semantic-grammar-batch-build-one-package):
* lisp/cus-start.el (standard):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/comp.el (comp--native-compile):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/edebug.el (edebug-max-depth):
(edebug-read-and-maybe-wrap-form, edebug-default-enter):
* lisp/emacs-lisp/regexp-opt.el (regexp-opt):
* lisp/eshell/esh-mode.el (eshell-mode):
* lisp/loadup.el (max-specpdl-size):
* lisp/mh-e/mh-e.el (mh-invisible-headers):
* lisp/net/shr.el (shr-insert-document, shr-descend):
* lisp/play/hanoi.el (hanoi-internal):
* lisp/progmodes/cperl-mode.el:
* src/fileio.c (Fdo_auto_save):
Remove references to and modifications of max-specpdl-size.

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 5 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/Makefile.in b/lisp/Makefile.in
index c73a623cce9..bcf4a3146d4 100644
--- a/lisp/Makefile.in
+++ b/lisp/Makefile.in
@@ -70,9 +70,7 @@ BYTE_COMPILE_FLAGS = \
   --eval "(setq load-prefer-newer t byte-compile-warnings 'all)" \
         $(BYTE_COMPILE_EXTRA_FLAGS)
 # ... but we must prefer .elc files for those in the early bootstrap.
-# A larger `max-specpdl-size' is needed for emacs-lisp/comp.el.
-compile-first: BYTE_COMPILE_FLAGS = \
-  --eval '(setq max-specpdl-size 5000)' $(BYTE_COMPILE_EXTRA_FLAGS)
+compile-first: BYTE_COMPILE_FLAGS = $(BYTE_COMPILE_EXTRA_FLAGS)
 
 # Files to compile before others during a bootstrap.  This is done to
 # speed up the bootstrap process.  They're ordered by size, so we use
@@ -342,8 +340,8 @@ compile-first: $(COMPILE_FIRST)
 
 .PHONY: compile-targets
 # TARGETS is set dynamically in the recursive call from 'compile-main'.
-# Do not build comp.el unless necessary not to exceed max-specpdl-size and
-# max-lisp-eval-depth in normal builds.
+# Do not build comp.el unless necessary not to exceed max-lisp-eval-depth
+# in normal builds.
 ifneq ($(HAVE_NATIVE_COMP),yes)
 compile-targets: $(filter-out ./emacs-lisp/comp-cstr.elc,$(filter-out ./emacs-lisp/comp.elc,$(TARGETS)))
 else