READLINE PATCH REPORT
			   =====================

Readline-Release: 7.0
Patch-ID: readline70-001

Bug-Reported-by:        Sean Zha <freeman_cha@hotmail.com>
Bug-Reference-ID:       <BN3PR01MB13657D9303EB94BF6E54216E8CCA0@BN3PR01MB1365.prod.exchangelabs.com>
Bug-Reference-URL:      http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-bash/2016-09/msg00107.html

Bug-Description:

Readline-7.0 changed the way the history list is initially allocated to reduce
the number of reallocations and copies.  Users who set the readline
history-size variable to a very large number to essentially unlimit the size
of the history list will get memory allocation errors 

Index: b/history.c
===================================================================
--- a/history.c
+++ b/history.c
@@ -57,6 +57,8 @@ extern int errno;
 /* How big to make the_history when we first allocate it. */
 #define DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE	502
 
+#define MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE	8192
+
 /* The number of slots to increase the_history by. */
 #define DEFAULT_HISTORY_GROW_SIZE 50
 
@@ -307,7 +309,9 @@ add_history (string)
       if (history_size == 0)
 	{
 	  if (history_stifled && history_max_entries > 0)
-	    history_size = history_max_entries + 2;
+	    history_size = (history_max_entries > MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE)
+				? MAX_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE
+				: history_max_entries + 2;
 	  else
 	    history_size = DEFAULT_HISTORY_INITIAL_SIZE;
 	  the_history = (HIST_ENTRY **)xmalloc (history_size * sizeof (HIST_ENTRY *));
Index: b/patchlevel
===================================================================
--- a/patchlevel
+++ b/patchlevel
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # Do not edit -- exists only for use by patch
 
-0
+1