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From: John Levine <johnl@taugh.com>
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Subject: Re: Stacks, was Segments
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According to MitchAlsup1 <mitchalsup@aol.com>:
>> Stacks are small because OS people make them small, not because of
>> a valid technical reason that has ever been explained to me.
>> "To avoid infinite recursion" is not a valid reason, IMHO.
>
>Algol 60 only had stack allocation for dynamically sized arrays,
>so stacks had to be as big as the data are.

Huh?  Algol 60 routines could be mutually recursive so unless it was
a leaf procedure or the outer block, everything not declared "own"
went on the stack.

On my FreeBSD server the default stack limit is half a gigabyte.  I
don't ever recall running into it.
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