Re: Storage_Size in a Simple Program

[Niklas Holsti <niklas.holsti@tidorum.invalid>]

On 18-10-29 22:58 , Randy Brukardt wrote:
> <joakimds@kth.se> wrote in message
> news:2635fb12-5836-4713-998d-e8179b801500@googlegroups.com...
>>> Since the main program's stack limit is determined by the OS, I don't
>>> see how an Ada aspect/pragma can affect it.
> ...
>> On Windows it may be possible to specify the size of stack at link time.
>> Consider for example the Windows linker that has a flag /Stack to be able
>> to set the size of the stack in bytes:
>> https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/y0zzbyt4.aspx
>
> That's the only way I know for Windows. Janus/Ada has a binder option that
> sets the stack size in the generated .OBJ file, and the Windows linker then
> puts that in the executable. I believe that GNAT has something similar on
> Windows (haven't had to try that to date).

That sounds as if the environment stack size _could_ theoretically be 
specified in the Ada source, for the Janus/Ada compiler to export to the 
Janus/Ada binder, which would then set it in the .OBJ for the Windws 
linker. Still we would need a standard way (a pragma or aspect, no 
doubt) to specify the size in the Ada source. That way is currently 
missing, AFAIK.

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Niklas Holsti
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