[ODE] GCC Stack Size, stepfast disabling bodies, and SIMD idea

[Adam D. Moss]

david@csworkbench.com wrote:
> Does anyone know how big of a stack GCC allocates....

Depends on the architecture, OS... and the linker!

 > and how to change
> that?  Reading through the man pages, -mstack-size doesn't seem to be an
> option for i386 processors. 

Using a GNU ld you can use for example --stack 128000000 to
define a 128MB runtime stack for the resulting executable.  I
don't know which architectures that's good for -- a very cursory
look at the man page seems to indicate it's universal...

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