Re: how much stack space can I use

Ingo Molnar (mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu)
Sat, 23 Oct 1999 18:59:52 +0200 (CEST)


On Sat, 23 Oct 1999, Manfred Spraul wrote:

> SEMMSL and SEMOPM are limited by stack space:
>
> sys_semctl() needs sizeof(short)*SEMMSL bytes
> (up to 1 Kb)
>
> sys_semop() needs 6*SEMOPM bytes.
> (up to 600 bytes)
>
> How much stack space can I use without causing a stack overflow? None of
> these functions are recursive, and they don't call any subfunctions
> which need more than a few bytes stack space.

maximum is ~7k, but we usually try to keep it under 4k.

-- mingo

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