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=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,7242bbd9bc9ed5cd X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-09-17 21:20:27 PST Path: archiver1.google.com!newsfeed.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!pln-e!spln!dex!extra.newsguy.com!newsp.newsguy.com!enews2 From: those who know me have no need of my name Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Memory Access for Large Array Date: 18 Sep 2001 03:50:23 GMT Organization: earthfriends Message-ID: <9o6g9v01u8s@enews2.newsguy.com> References: <1000493387.173635@news.drenet.dnd.ca> NNTP-Posting-Host: p-540.newsdawg.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) Xref: archiver1.google.com comp.lang.ada:13140 Date: 2001-09-18T03:50:23+00:00 List-Id: divulged: >On Fri, 14 Sep 2001 14:49:47 -0400, Sfoo wrote: >>I have a Sun Solaris with 1 Gbytes of RAM and lots of SAWP space. I am = >>compiling my Ada program with GNU Ada95 compiler. I wrote a small test = >>program which define a large 2 dimensional array as follow: > >I couldn't get around that limit either. I use Linux, and my "ulimit -s" shows >I have unlimited stack size. just because the limit is "unlimited" doesn't meant that there is no upper bound, bizarre as that might sound to you. (you don't have infinite memory installed, right?) the limits you can inspect and change are administrative policy limits. there remain platform related or imposed upper bounds. for better clues as to why linux acts as it does you should ask in a linux forum, e.g., comp.os.linux.admin. -- okay, have a sig then