porting/maintainers.t: Skip on EBCDIC

[perl5.git] / t / thread_it.pl

diff --git a/t/thread_it.pl b/t/thread_it.pl
index aa5e18b..7fc145a 100644 (file)
--- a/t/thread_it.pl
+++ b/t/thread_it.pl
@@ -29,8 +29,12 @@ note('running tests in a new thread');
 # Currently 59*4096 is the minimum stack size to just get t/re/pat_thr.t to
 # pass on HP-UX 64bit PA-RISC. The test for capture buffers (eg \87)
 # recurses heavily, and busts the default stack size (65536 on PA-RISC)
+# On Mac OS X under gcc and g++, the default stack size is also too small.
+# Ditto on VMS, although threshold varies by platform and -Dusevmsdebug.
 my $curr = threads->create({
-                            stack_size => 524288,
+                            stack_size => $^O eq 'hpux'   ? 524288 :
+                                          $^O eq 'darwin' ? 1000000:
+                                          $^O eq 'VMS'    ? 150000 : 0,
                            }, sub {
                               run_tests();
                               return defined &curr_test ? curr_test() : ()