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From: swalton@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: AmigaGCC stack hogging
Message-ID: <1991Jan14.212254.9779@csun.edu>
Date: 14 Jan 91 21:22:54 GMT
References: <1882f287.ARN1979@moria.UUCP>
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Reply-To: swalton@solaria.csun.edu (Stephen Walton)
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In-Reply-To: bojsen@moria.UUCP (Per Bojsen)

In article <1882f287.ARN1979@moria.UUCP>, bojsen@moria (Per Bojsen) writes:

>What is the precise reason for the large stack needs of GCC?

This is not peculiar to GCC.  All of the GNU software is written as if
the amount of available stack was essentially infinite.  The GNU regular
expression routines, for instance, use alloca() extensively.

You will also find that GNU Emacs crashes on an A3000 running AmigaOS,
because it uses the high bits of a 32 bit address to store information
about Emacs Lisp objects.  About the only other Amiga software which does
this is AmigaBasic!
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Stephen Walton, Dept. of Physics & Astronomy, Cal State Univ. Northridge
   I am srw@csun.edu no matter WHAT the stupid From: line says!