Mail Archives: cygwin/2006/04/05/00:11:52
On 4/1/06, Joshua Daniel Franklin wrote:
> On 3/30/06, Dave Korn wrote:
> > As to the FAQ entry, it really needs a little alteration. Ping JDF!
> >
> > It should make clear that those parameters are in bytes. The example of a
> > 4k stack and 1k heap is a bit unrealistic and it might be more productive to
> > show people how to make exes with /big/ stacks, since that's the problem
> > people usually run into. How about something a bit more like
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------<snip>
> > 21.
> >
> > How can I adjust the heap/stack size of an application?
> >
> > If you need to change the maximum amount of memory available to Cygwin, see
> > http://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/setup-maxmem.html. Otherwise, just pass the
> > desired heap/stack size in bytes as linker arguments to gcc. To create foo.exe
> > with a heap size of 200MB and a stack size of 8MB, you would invoke gcc as:
> >
> > gcc -Wl,--heap,200000000,--stack,8000000 -o foo foo.c
> > -------------------------------------------------------------<snip>
OK, checked in, but I didn't update the website.
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