Re: how do I increase stack space for a program compiled with gcc?

[Ted Huntington <thunting at uci dot edu>]

Thanks for your answers!

This is on Linux Redhat 7.1.  I found a flag that allows more stack space
-mpreferred-stack-boundary=2.  This changes the alignment of data on the stack to
2 bytes(?).  This gave me enough stack space.

So now I can continue to port my game "2020" to Linux!

Ted


Joern Rennecke wrote:

> Tim Prince wrote:
> >
> > Several OS where gcc is commonly used do not even provide adequate
> > support for changes to default stack size.  If you are using redhat 6.2,
> > an upgrade may be indicated.  Later versions of redhat, so I've been
> > told, have a larger, but still immutable, stack region.
>
> Funny, I remember that I could get the stack to change the sign of the address
> with some largish allocations sometime around 1995 on an SLS / Slackware /
> funet / tsx11 system.
> (I used mmap for gcc.c-torture/execute/loop-2[ef].c because that
>  didn't require root privileges to raise the stack hard limit...)
>
> --
> Joern Rennecke                  |            gcc expert for hire
> amylaar@onetel.net.uk           |  send enquiries to: jwr_jobs@onetel.net.uk

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