[m-rev.] for review: increase default detstack size

[Ian MacLarty]

On 31 Aug 2005, at 13:09, Ralph Becket wrote:

> Mark Brown, Wednesday, 31 August 2005:
>>
>> One alternative is to leave the default as is, but specify a higher 
>> limit
>> in the bootcheck script when in a debug grade.
>
> This would be my preferred option.
>
>> Another alternative is for
>> the default size to be specified in words rather than kB, so that the 
>> size
>> will naturally be doubled on 64-bit machines.
>
> This feels like a bad idea to me.
>

Why?  The number of words more closely reflects the max number of 
frames.  32 and 64 bit versions of a program could run with the same 
runtime settings if we specified the max stack size in terms of number 
of words.

Ian.

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