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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,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: Stanley Allen Subject: Re: How to set stack size of main task? Date: 1996/10/05 Message-ID: <325608E8.C1B@ghgcorp.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 187696510 references: <3251CF5F.50B@ro.com> <1996Oct2.075609.1@eisner> content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii organization: GHG Internet Services mime-version: 1.0 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win95; I) Date: 1996-10-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: 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