Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!nrl-cmf!cmcl2!brl-adm!brl-smoke!gwyn From: gwyn@brl-smoke.ARPA (Doug Gwyn ) Newsgroups: comp.lang.c Subject: Re: Limit to array size under cc? Message-ID: <6768@brl-smoke.ARPA> Date: Tue, 1-Dec-87 06:18:38 EST Article-I.D.: brl-smok.6768 Posted: Tue Dec 1 06:18:38 1987 Date-Received: Fri, 4-Dec-87 05:08:34 EST References: <3537@ames.arpa> <9583@mimsy.UUCP> Reply-To: gwyn@brl.arpa (Doug Gwyn (VLD/VMB)) Organization: Ballistic Research Lab (BRL), APG, MD. Lines: 8 In article <9583@mimsy.UUCP> chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek) writes: > Solution: use the C-shell built in `limit' command, ... A better solution would be to change the code so as not to allocate so much on the auto stack. There are many machines with much smaller stack size limits, and code that assumes an "infinite" stack will not port to such machines. Huge amounts of space are best obtained via malloc().