From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.1 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_05,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,97ef4f98f5ce08be X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: kilgallen@eisner.decus.org (Larry Kilgallen) Subject: Re: How to set stack size of main task? Date: 1996/10/07 Message-ID: <1996Oct7.083117.1@eisner>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187307486 x-nntp-posting-host: eisner.decus.org references: <3251CF5F.50B@ro.com> <1996Oct2.075609.1@eisner> <325608E8.C1B@ghgcorp.com> x-nntp-posting-user: KILGALLEN x-trace: 844691494/5954 organization: LJK Software newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-10-07T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <325608E8.C1B@ghgcorp.com>, Stanley Allen writes: > Larry Kilgallen wrote: >> >> On VMS, the main stack will "expand" when it runs out, although as >> with any well-behaved operating system there are limits on how much >> virtual memory can be spent in this endeavor (preventing an individual >> user from filling the pagefile, for example). >> > Have you checked this? I made a simple recursive main program for > DEC Ada on VMS about 7 years ago (yes, I know that's ancient history), > which had no terminating condition -- infinitely recursive. This > was a test of just this feature. > > Apparently I did fill up the page file because the system crashed > for an hour or two. I remember that I was working for {company X}, > it was about 11:00am and the big VAX machine had about 80 users... > I don't think the system administrators ever knew it was my fault... > I kept my mouth shut... deleted the library.... > > Stanley Allen > sallen@ghgcorp.com