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Re: Expand stack in Cygwin


Thanks to all who wrote.  Yes, the problem was that it should be Wl, not W1.  (el not one)

That makes the compiler happy, and actually solves the odd crashing I was getting.

Robert H. Lewis
Fordham University
http://home.bway.net/lewis/

--- On Tue, 6/12/12, R Berber  wrote:

>
> Subject: Re: Expand stack in Cygwin
> Date: Tuesday, June 12, 2012, 6:03 PM
> On 6/12/2012 4:43 PM, Robert Lewis
> wrote:
> 
> > How does one increase the stack size of an application using Cygwin?
> > I have googled this and found suggestions such as adding
> >
> > -W1,--stack,8000000
> ----^

> Wrong, change the "1" to the letter "l".

> 
> > to make the stack 8 meg.  However, this doesn't
> work for me.  I
> > include this as an option to gcc in my makefile and
> bash just reports an error message.
> 
> That's probably something else.
> -- 
> R Berber
> 

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