Author: Nuno Lopes Date: To: pcre-dev Subject: Re: [pcre-dev] coff file info and data
>> BTW, would it be possible to include some options for allocating some >> fixed stack space when configuring under windows (if not disabling stack
>> recursion)? I think it involves setting some flags? Or automatically
>> doing so with 8 mb (so all the pcretests work?)
>
> Of course I know nothing about Windows, but I very much doubt this is
> sensible or workable as a general PCRE thing. In Unix, there's a
> function called setrlimit() that sets an upper limit to the stack
> (amongst other things) subject to a global maximum. Maybe you can do the
> same in Windows, but I do not think this is something that PCRE should
> be doing. It's the application that calls PCRE that should be adjusting
> its environment.
This can be configured on compile-time with MSVC (I don't remember how, but
I know it has a switch to configure that).
