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Date: Wed, 13 Jun 2012 09:58:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Robert Lewis <rfermat AT yahoo DOT com>
Subject: Re: Expand stack in Cygwin
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Thanks to all who wrote.  Yes, the problem was that it should be Wl, not W1.  (el not one)

That makes the compiler happy, and actually solves the odd crashing I was getting.

Robert H. Lewis
Fordham University
http://home.bway.net/lewis/

--- On Tue, 6/12/12, R Berber  wrote:

>
> Subject: Re: Expand stack in Cygwin
> Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 6:03 PM
> On 6/12/2012 4:43 PM, Robert Lewis
> wrote:
> 
> > How does one increase the stack size of an application using Cygwin?
> > I have googled this and found suggestions such as adding
> >
> > -W1,--stack,8000000
> ----^

> Wrong, change the "1" to the letter "l".

> 
> > to make the stack 8 meg.  However, this doesn't
> work for me.  I
> > include this as an option to gcc in my makefile and
> bash just reports an error message.
> 
> That's probably something else.
> -- 
> R Berber
> 

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