stack limit

[Alexandre Julliard]

Stephen Crowley <stephenc at placemark.com> writes:

> Works like a charm! Thanks. I'm curious though.. I set the stack size
> to 64 megs and the application immediately uses up that much ram. Is
> that the default behaviour on windows? What stops it from behaving
> like a normal stack and just allocating what's needed from the heap?

The ram isn't actually used, it's only reserved from the address space
with an anonymous mapping. Only the pages that are really accessed
will use physical memory/swap, so it doesn't use any more ram than a
normal stack.

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Alexandre Julliard
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