Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site arizona.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!arizona!whm From: whm@arizona.UUCP (Bill Mitchell) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: C stack frame sizes Message-ID: <18092@arizona.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 03:03:58 EST Article-I.D.: arizona.18092 Posted: Fri Nov 30 03:03:58 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 07:00:40 EST Distribution: net Organization: Dept of CS, U of Arizona, Tucson Lines: 10 Has anyone ever empirically studied the sizes of C stack frames for UNIX applications? The particular question I have is: How serious would a 65kbyte maximum frame size be for a 32 bit machine. I don't think I've ever seen a function that would come close to this limit, but I really don't have a good feel for how reachable this limit would be in the majority of cases. Bill Mitchell whm.arizona@csnet-relay {noao,mcnc,utah-cs}!arizona!whm