Re: GCC 3.3.4 setting Stack and Heap

[Paul Pluzhnikov]

Dave Dons <ddons@yahoo.com> writes:

> Help appreciated setting stack (and heap) in GCC Linux:

On Linux, the kernel controls max size of your stack and heap via
resource limits (man getrlimit, man ulimit). 

There is simply no place in the ELF executable to record what your
*desired* limits are, but if there was a place, the kernel would
have disregarded this info anyway (if it were not so, you could do a
trivial DOS attack by simply compiling an exe with a huge heap/stack
allowance).

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