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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.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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