[Chicken-users] Re: jbogenturfa'i: "Error: stack overflow"

[Alan Post]

On Fri, Dec 03, 2010 at 04:39:42PM -0700, Alan Post wrote:
> I don't get much guidance as to what to do with this error message,
> but I guessed I needed to adjust my '-stack-size' variable.  Looking
> at my ulimit, my stack size is set to 32MB, though I believe I've
> asked it to be unlimited.  This could be the max I can get in
> OpenBSD:
> 
>   $ ulimit -a
>   ...
>   stack(kbytes)        32768
>   ...
> 

Indeed, this is the maximum stack size in OpenBSD on i386.  From
sys/arch/i386/include/vmparam.h:

#ifndef MAXSSIZ
#define MAXSSIZ         (32*1024*1024)          /* max stack size */
#endif

So this assumption is confirmed.

-Alan
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