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Re: C++ Questions

Posted by Matthew Pratt on 1999-05-24

> bytes or well over 3 megs. Thus, you would certainly
> run over the system
> stack and cause a seg fault, but on an operating
> system like win95/98/NT
> or a *nix you probably would be able to get that

I dont know about 'doze but any good kernel should be
able to handle a couple of megs in the stack. I have
had a runaway recursion dump a 10meg core file on my
linux box, so that should give you some idea of how
big the stack gets before it bombs out.


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