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Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2011 07:52:41 +0059
From: Denis Excoffier <cygwin AT Denis-Excoffier DOT org>
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Subject: Re: gcc-4.5.3 segfaults wrt alloca
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On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 02:42:39PM +0000, Dave Korn wrote:
>>   5. Setting the program's initial stack size larger by adding e.g.
>> "-Wl,-stack,4000000" to the compiler commandline ensures that the initial
>> stack pointer is located somewhere that at least that much memory is
>> available, and makes the testcase run OK for me where previously it was faulting.
Me (OP) too. Thank you for the explanations.

Denis Excoffier.

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