Thread: [clisp-list] Program stack overflow. RESET: how to increase the stack size on windows?

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hello,

i just ran into a problem:
*** Program stack overflow. RESET

i found the following mail (see below) on the clisp-list. i am working 
on windows and i would like to increase the stack size of the lisp.exe 
executable. now i wonder how to do this?

can anybody give me a hint?

many thanks!

 > FROM: Bruno Haible
 > DATE: 09/29/2000 05:57:58
 > SUBJECT: RE:  [clisp-list] Lisp and Memory-- "Program Stack Overflow"
 >
 >
 >
 > Justice, Randy writes:
 >
 >>>I trying to do some recursive memory searches.  I have run into a 
couple of
 >>
 >>searches which require large amounts of memory.  I understand that 
CLISP has
 >>an option of -m to allocate more memory.
 >>
 >>>On the NT side, It does not seem to work at all.  On NT, I get about 
2000
 >>
 >>levels down before "Program Stack Overflow. RESET" regardless of the 
value
 >>by option -m.
 >>
 >>>RedHat Linux seem to have a limit too.  The -m10m gives me about 8000
 >>
 >>levels, -m20m gives me about 9500 levels,  and -m40m has the same 
limit as
 >>-m20m.
 >>
 >>>How do I get more memory of CLISP to use?  Or is there a bigger 
concept that
 >>
 >>I am missing?
 >
 >
 > CLISP cannot give you more than the default stack size of the
 > operating system, because the operating system generally doesn`t allow
 > it. On Windows, the stack size needed by a program must be hardwired
 > in the executable (lisp.exe). On Unix, the maximum stack size is
 > changeable through the `ulimit` shell builtin; its use might require
 > superuser privileges.
 >
 > Therefore all you can do is
 >   a) prefer iteration over recursion when you are iterating through
 >      long lists,
 >   b) compile your lisp programs, then they eat less stack,
 >   c) become superuser and use "ulimit -s" to change the stack size,
 >      then su back to your normal identity and start clisp.
 >
 > Bruno

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Christian Schuhegger