Do not munch data too much #5644
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This PR to the RC aims to fix a bug uncovered during reverse dependency checks.
Briefly, for reasons beyond my understanding,
coord_munch()
might receive a very large segment, let's say1e20
forx
ory
. It might then attempt to break up this large segment into many tiny pieces. You'd then getfailed to allocate vector of 7Gb
types of errors. Setting an upper limit on the number of pieces prevents this unreasonable demand on the machine's memory.