From: mcneils@applique.sedd.trw.com (Sean McNeil)
Subject: stack size (was Re[2]: serious bug with CYGNUS GCC b16)
4 Dec 1996 17:33:02 -0800
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This explains a question I was getting ready to pose.  Apparantly, gcc
adds stack probing whenever allocating large (>4k) space on the stack.
I thought that this would extend the stack.  I guess it does assist in
doing so by increments of sizecommit, but will not extend past
sizereserve.  So, I need to set the sizereserve to something nice and
large.  As mentioned, this is done with the -stack option to ld and can
be made a default option when linking with gcc.

Thanks for the info.
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