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   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Steven G. Kargl   
   Re: Intel Fortran Help in VS   
   28 Jan 24 20:51:51   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Sun, 28 Jan 2024 16:41:21 -0000 (UTC), Steven G. Kargl wrote:   
      
   > I submitted a patch to implement the NON_RECURSIVE prefix and made the   
   > change to make procedure recursive by default.  It's in bugzilla.  Janne   
   > and I had a short discussion, and we are both leary of what might happen   
   > with the stack; particular for an OS that provides a small stack.   
      
   Large objects tend to be variable in size anyway; how do you deal with   
   that? Do you stop and restart the program with a different global   
   allocation size?   
      
   In modern languages, we do most dynamic allocations, especially large   
   ones, in the heap.   
      
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