In article <3bee5f5b@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   Why is it so difficult to just increase that stack size?

Because it cannot be increased to not crash with a max_trace_level set to
2^31?

>   As for the Windows version: I still don't understand why a bigger stack
> could not be linked to the program. Most compilers have an option to specify
> the stack size the program will use; this stack size is usually very small
> (eg. 8 or 16 kilobytes); just increase it and there you are: You can have
> tens of thousands of recursions in winpov.

The stack size is already at 1024 KB on Windows, and 600 KB on Macs!  Did
you really think POV-Ray would ever run if there was such a low limit as 16
KB?

So how much more should it be to please you?  Ten MB, 100 MB or one GB?

    Thorsten

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