Re: [Valgrind-users] valgrind stack problem

[Tom H. <to...@co...>]

In message <116...@lo...>
        Ashley Pittman <as...@qu...> wrote:

> On Fri, 2006-10-20 at 10:41 +0100, Julian Seward wrote:
>> Are you sure you're not trying to allocate too much stuff onto the stack?
>> 3.2.1 allows you a max stack of 16M and you get to segfault after that.
>
> Is this limitation something that's here to stay?  I've not spotted it
> as a problem but I'm a few months behind head-of-tree currently.

It's not a particularly new limitation - it has been in ever since
the address space manager rewrite.

Personally I always have a 10 Mb stack limit set anyway so that
my debugger has some chance of unwinding the stack if I get a
runaway recursion.

Tom

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