------- Comment #6 from pcarlini at suse dot de 2006-07-05 22:48 ------- (In reply to comment #5) > The threads point is just a basic stack size issue: threads on linux have a > fixed size which is often smaller than the main stack size limit.
Ok then. > With an output width of 60 million, it's easy to see a failure, even on a main > stack. > > hollerith:~/exp-string-width$ ulimit -Ss > 8192 > hollerith:~/exp-string-width$ /home/mec/gcc-4.2-20060624/install/bin/g++ z1.cc > hollerith:~/exp-string-width$ a.out > /dev/null > Segmentation fault Note, in general, I guess we are often going to fail anyway (at least for some of the pointed out uses) only, throwing a bad_alloc exception instead of seg-faulting, I hope that is acceptable... -- http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28277
