[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 177392] WebAssemly + gigacage maxNumWebAssemblyFastMemories = 10 fails

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=177392

--- Comment #3 from Filip Pizlo <fpizlo at apple.com> ---
(In reply to JF Bastien from comment #2)
> (In reply to Filip Pizlo from comment #1)
> > Not a bug. The purpose of maxNumWebAssemblyFastMemories is to protect us
> > from this case by ensuring the we don’t ever eat up all of the gigacage just
> > with virtual allocations.
> 
> Options processing should catch an invalid input for
> maxNumWebAssemblyFastMemories then, no? x86 used to be able to have a huge
> number of fast memories...

It is not a goal of options processing to catch all nonsensical inputs. Also, the right maximum here is terribly difficult to deduce.

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