Enlarge the stack size in gcc ?

[Qoo]

Is there any tools like "stubedit" can let me enlarge the stack size
under linux ?

And I was quite wondering what's the default stack size of the program
compiled with gcc without any parameter ?

Sorry for my poor english : (

 

[David Resnick]

Is there any tools like "stubedit" can let me enlarge the stack size
under linux ?

And I was quite wondering what's the default stack size of the program
compiled with gcc without any parameter ?

Sorry for my poor english : (

All off topic here, this is a newgroup about the "C" language rather
than on particular implementation. Give gnu.gcc.help a try. Followups
set there.

-David

 

[Roger Leigh]

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[comp.os.linux.development.apps is a more appropriate place than
comp.lang.c. Followups set.]

Is there any tools like "stubedit" can let me enlarge the stack size
under linux ?

No. The stack size is not set in the ELF binary. It's a settable
user resource limit; see RLIMIT_STACK in setrlimit(2).

Have you run out of stack space? Unless you set some really tiny
limits, it should be able to grow *very* large.

On my system, it's set to 8 KiB:

$ ulimit -s
8192

Change it with the ulimit bash builtin, or setrlimit(), or at login
with PAM (pam_limits.so).

And I was quite wondering what's the default stack size of the program
compiled with gcc without any parameter ?

See above: there is *no such thing* as a "default stack size" of a
binary. GNU/Linux is not DOS (i.e. broken).


Regards,
Roger

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[Anonymous 7843]

Is there any tools like "stubedit" can let me enlarge the stack size
under linux ?

You might want to ask that in a linux-related newsgroup.

The C-related advice is that if you're using so much stack
that you need more...you're probably abusing the stack.
Don't do that.

- Use iteration in preference to recursion when appropriate
- If the nature of what you're doing demands recursion, investigate
alternative algorithms that don't recurse as deeply
- Put large objects into the heap instead of on the stack
- Pass pointers to large things instead of copying them

Just a start.