On Feb 18, 2009, at 3:22 AM, Michael Vannorsdel wrote:
Really it would be best to malloc the space, use it, and free it.
Once you get to huge stack usage you gamble that you won't run out
when there can be other higher up calls also consuming some
(frameworks, libs, 3rd party code, ect). Also if you only use the
large amount once in a while then you have a bunch of unutilized
memory sitting around.
Agreed: use malloc for large memory allocations.
One other limit that you apparently haven't run into yet: some
architectures limit the maximum size of a single stack frame, even if
there is lots of space on the stack. ppc has a maximum 64K stack frame
size; arm may have a similar limit.
--
Greg Parker gpar...@apple.com Runtime Wrangler
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