How do i increase the size of the program stack?

[lianne.ribeiro]

I am using Visual C++ 6 IDE,with 512MB RAM. I have coded a recursive
function that has a correct end condition for recursion. There is no
infinite recursion.

For some input data,the recursive function gets called so many times
that it causes a 'First-chance exception in a.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack
Overflow.'

How do i increase the size of the program stack?

[Ivan Vecerina]

<li************@gmail.comwrote in message
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:I am using Visual C++ 6 IDE,with 512MB RAM. I have coded a recursive
: function that has a correct end condition for recursion. There is no
: infinite recursion.
:
: For some input data,the recursive function gets called so many times
: that it causes a 'First-chance exception in a.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack
: Overflow.'
:
: How do i increase the size of the program stack?

As already stated, stack size probably can be configured as
a parameter to your linker.

But I would like to add that, in production code, I usually avoid
poorly bounded recursion (in practice, everything that may recurse
for more than log(input size) .
Even if there cannot be infinite recursion, it is not a good sign
that you are hitting the default stack size limit of your platform.

Maybe recursion depth can be reduced by altering or tuning the
algorithm. If not, derecursifying the algorithm is advisable...

Regards -Ivan
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[Anand Hariharan]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 05:08:09 -0700, lianne.ribeiro wrote:

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How do i increase the size of the program stack?

Do not multi-post. Your question was answered in comp.lang.c

- Anand

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[Jerry Coffin]

In article <27a2f808-4e64-4a9d-a69a-3a86b54279f2
@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, li************@gmail.com says...

I am using Visual C++ 6 IDE,with 512MB RAM. I have coded a recursive
function that has a correct end condition for recursion. There is no
infinite recursion.

For some input data,the recursive function gets called so many times
that it causes a 'First-chance exception in a.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack
Overflow.'

How do i increase the size of the program stack?

You might want to ask somewhere that this would be topical, such as
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32. When you do, I'd advise adding one
more crucial bit of data: whether that exception is followed almost
immediately by a _second_ chance exception of the same type.

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Jerry.

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[Anand Hariharan]

On Sat, 22 Mar 2008 21:06:06 -0600, Jerry Coffin wrote:

In article <27a2f808-4e64-4a9d-a69a-3a86b54279f2
@u10g2000prn.googlegroups.com>, li************@gmail.com says...

(..)

>>
How do i increase the size of the program stack?

You might want to ask somewhere that this would be topical, such as
comp.os.ms-windows.programmer.win32. When you do, I'd advise adding one
more crucial bit of data: whether that exception is followed almost
immediately by a _second_ chance exception of the same type.

This is a multi-post, and despite being OT, the OP got an answer in
c.l.c.

- Anand

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