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From: whm@arizona.UUCP (Bill Mitchell)
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Subject: C stack frame sizes
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Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 03:03:58 EST
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Posted: Fri Nov 30 03:03:58 1984
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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
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