From da8023d653618431f8e1c651e0c3b83fa0d4269a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Aaron Turon <aturon@mozilla.com>
Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 16:37:00 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] Change init-large-type to use child thread

---
 src/test/run-pass/init-large-type.rs | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/src/test/run-pass/init-large-type.rs b/src/test/run-pass/init-large-type.rs
index 0534d0c054f..8ee6054f8ba 100644
--- a/src/test/run-pass/init-large-type.rs
+++ b/src/test/run-pass/init-large-type.rs
@@ -14,6 +14,8 @@
 
 #![feature(intrinsics)]
 
+use std::thread::Thread;
+
 extern "rust-intrinsic" {
     pub fn init<T>() -> T;
 }
@@ -21,5 +23,8 @@
 const SIZE: usize = 1024 * 1024;
 
 fn main() {
-    let _memory: [u8; SIZE] = unsafe { init() };
+    // do the test in a new thread to avoid (spurious?) stack overflows
+    let _ = Thread::scoped(|| {
+        let _memory: [u8; SIZE] = unsafe { init() };
+    }).join();
 }
-- 
2.44.0