Re: Big variables problem (limited stack size)

[Wolfram Gloger]

> It's been rumoured that Dr. Michael Weller said:
> > Last time I looked, there was a hard stack limit of 8MB HARDWIRED INTO THE
> > KERNEL SOURCE.
> 
> Only on old kernels.

Care to name which one ?

There was _never_ a `hardwired' stack limit in the Linux kernel, other
than the GB-or-so limit due to address space considerations on 32bit
systems.  Many distributions shipped with ulimit -s set to 8MB,
however (quite sensibly, IMHO).

Regards,
Wolfram.