Setting the stack size

[Mike Parker]

On 12/2/2010 10:33 AM, Andrew Wiley wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 7:14 PM, Mike Parker <aldacron at gmail.com
> <mailto:aldacron at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
>     On 12/2/2010 6:12 AM, Andrew Wiley wrote:
>
>
>
>         On Wed, Dec 1, 2010 at 2:36 PM, bearophile
>         <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com <mailto:bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>
>         <mailto:bearophileHUGS at lycos.com
>         <mailto:bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>>> wrote:
>
>             Franciszek Czekala:
>
>          > How do you set the stack size for D programs?
>
>             On Windows with DMD this is how to set the max stack size to
>         about
>             1.5 GB of the "test.d" module:
>             dmd -L/STACK:1500000000 test.d
>
>             (I'd like D to have a standard syntax (maybe a pragma(...))
>         to tell
>             the other parts of the compilation chain how much stack to use).
>
>
>         If the stack size is only set by the executable on Windows, I
>         don't see
>         how that would be useful.
>
>
>     It's not set by DMD, but by the linker. You need to pass the
>     appropriate flag to the linker on each platform via the -L command
>     line option. bearophile's example is for OPTLINK. On platforms where
>     DMD is backed by the gcc toolchain, you should be able to use
>
>     dmd -L--stack 1500000000 test.d
>
>
> $ ld --stack
> ld: unrecognized option '--stack'
> ld: use the --help option for usage information
>
> The linker doesn't set the stack size on Linux/Unix (seems like OSX is
> an exception). You set the stack size in the environment with 'ulimit -s'

I got that from the ld man page [1]. But on checking again, I see this:

[This option is specific to the i386 PE targeted port of the linker]

Sorry about that.

[1] http://linux.die.net/man/1/ld