In article <3f6c956b@news.povray.org> , Warp <war### [at] tagpovrayorg>  wrote:

>   In some systems compilers allocate a fixed amount of space for certain
> things (such as the stack).

Or the OS properly limits the stack size of applications by default ...
which is the case on Mac OS X, whose Mach-O kernel will limit an application
stack size to 512 KB unless it has been otherwise specified when building
the application (the stack itself only grows a (4 KB) page at a time, of
course).

    Thorsten

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