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Reputation: 2441

Change stack size for a C++ application in Linux during compilation with GNU compiler

In OSX during C++ program compilation with g++ I use

LD_FLAGS= -Wl,-stack_size,0x100000000

but in SUSE Linux I constantly get errors like:

x86_64-suse-linux/bin/ld: unrecognized option '--stack'

and similar.

I know that it is possible to use

ulimit -s unlimited

but this is not nice as not always can a single user do that.

How can I increase the stack size in Linux with GCC for a single application?

Upvotes: 73

Views: 125115

Answers (5)

Rof
Rof

Reputation: 131

This is an old topic, but none of the flags answered here worked for me. Anyway by I found out that -Wl,-z,stack-size=4194304 (example for 4MB) seems to work.

Upvotes: 13

Serg Kryvonos
Serg Kryvonos

Reputation: 4677

Consider using -fsplit-stack option https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks

Upvotes: 7

Paul R
Paul R

Reputation: 212929

You can set the stack size programmatically with setrlimit, e.g.

#include <sys/resource.h>

int main (int argc, char **argv)
{
    const rlim_t kStackSize = 16 * 1024 * 1024;   // min stack size = 16 MB
    struct rlimit rl;
    int result;

    result = getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rl);
    if (result == 0)
    {
        if (rl.rlim_cur < kStackSize)
        {
            rl.rlim_cur = kStackSize;
            result = setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rl);
            if (result != 0)
            {
                fprintf(stderr, "setrlimit returned result = %d\n", result);
            }
        }
    }

    // ...

    return 0;
}

Note: even when using this method to increase stack size you should not declare large local variables in main() itself, since you may well get a stack overflow as soon as you enter main(), before the getrlimit/setrlimit code has had a chance to change the stack size. Any large local variables should therefore be defined only in functions which are subsequently called from main(), after the stack size has successfully been increased.

Upvotes: 85

f0ster
f0ster

Reputation: 558

Change it with the ulimit bash builtin, or setrlimit(), or at login with PAM (pam_limits.so).

It's a settable user resource limit; see RLIMIT_STACK in setrlimit(2).

http://bytes.com/topic/c/answers/221976-enlarge-stack-size-gcc

Upvotes: 2

AndiDog
AndiDog

Reputation: 70108

Instead of stack_size, use --stack like so:

gcc -Wl,--stack,4194304 -o program program.c

This example should give you 4 MB of stack space. Works on MinGW's GCC, but as the manpage says, "This option is specific to the i386 PE targeted port of the linker" (i.e. only works for outputting Windows binaries). Seems like there isn't an option for ELF binaries.

Upvotes: 27

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