In the last episode (Jul 12), Yar Tikhiy said:
> Hi there,
>
> As I see, there are many spots in the FreeBSD userland sources where
> multi-kilobyte automatic variables (e.g., string buffers) are used.
> I've been taught that such variables would better be static or
> allocated on heap.
>
> So the following question comes to my mind: To stay portable to a
> reasonable degree, how large on-stack variables can be used?
I think most OSes default to an 8MB stack (at least a quick survey of
the ones here do). FreeBSD seems to default to 64MB.
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