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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: porting Linux apps to BSD !
Date: 25 Aug 1995 10:12:05 +0200
Organization: Private U**x site, Dresden.
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Matthias Pfaller <leo@krabat.marco.de> wrote:
>It may well be possible that he is trying to allocate a large array from
>the stack. For example the program "piggyback" that is used during the
>linux build process does not work on NetBSD because of this. I noticed
>this when I crosscompiled Linux on my pc532.
Indeed. The default stack limit is not as large (something like 8
MB), but it can be increased by ``limit stacksize unlimit'' from the
[t]csh. Not really unlimited then, but only limited by the size of
the available page tables.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)