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From: karlran@hotmail.com (Karl Ran)
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Subject: Re: Howto debug seg-faulting Ada 95 code?
Date: 3 Sep 2002 02:11:22 -0700
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Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> wrote in message 

> > Is there a work-around for this software defect, other than using
> > 'new'?
> 
> Which defect?  The stack overflow?  Well, you'd have to use an
> architecture which offers 64 bit pointers.  ("new" does not raise
> Storage_Errore reliably either because physical memory is usually
> allocated not as soon a logical memory region is allocated, but only
> if the memory region is written to.)

Thanks for your explanation.

You mentioned a 2 MB stack barrier in 87y9an5tt2.fsf@deneb.enyo.de.
Would you please give me a hint where this limit comes from?
Is it related to GNAT_STACK_LIMIT?

Thanks,
Karl