[Ecls-list] [Maxima] segmentation fault with Maxima/ECL

[Gabriel Dos Reis]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2008 at 1:38 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll
>> Oh, I don't know. Maybe manage the call stack within ECL.
>
> This is not our role.

agreed 100%.

> On Linux and other Unices, stack size is
> controlled by the command line and programs do not have privileges to
> enlarge it, other than sometimes allocating a completely new stack and
> setting up a thread on it, AFAIK. But the linux box I tried had a
> large enough C stack, it was the binding stack that failed.

On unixes and with most shells, one can use ulimit to set the stack size.

-- Gaby