On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 11:12, sven falempin wrote: > What is a 'good maximum' size for a buffer like this in amd64 world and > arm ? > From which amount should we consider to not use the stack. (I know it > depends the type of function, > but lets focus on this case )
Stack rlimit is 4096K, so there shouldn't be anything wrong with using some number up to a few hundred K. After about a megabyte I'd probably start asking questions, but only because a fixed size buffer that large is unusual, regardless of where it's been allocated.
