Re: exception access violation

["Kevin K" <kevink4@gmail.com>]

On Wed, 15 Nov 2006 09:52:10 UTC, Georg Bauhaus 
<bauhaus@futureapps.de> wrote:

> Why is using the heap + controlled for larger data structures
> more portable than using the stack? I


Some operating systems put smaller than you would expect limitations 
on the environment stack.  And while you can change it in some cases, 
while playing around, I found that Mac OSX, for example, seemed to 
have a 16MB limit (going by memory).  And since task stacks were put 
on this stack instead of in the heap, that further limited it.  If I 
was writing stuff from scratch that was also going to run on it, I 
would work on putting the data on the heap.

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