From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jon Masters Subject: Re: Static memory allocation Date: Sat, 25 Sep 2004 11:03:44 +0100 Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <35fb2e590409250303840efce@mail.gmail.com> References: <20040924105708.5067.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> Reply-To: jonathan@jonmasters.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040924105708.5067.qmail@web52904.mail.yahoo.com> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Ankit Jain Cc: gcc , linux prg Hi Ankit, It might be worth asking your friend which architecture and kernel they are using - if it's Linux then they'll have to be using something that automatically extends the stack quite a bit - or they're just very lucky (or using Windows 98). Cheers, Jon.