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   Message 4,607 of 5,127   
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro to Thomas Koenig   
   Re: Intel Fortran Help in VS   
   29 Jan 24 07:00:52   
   
   From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Mon, 29 Jan 2024 06:54:14 -0000 (UTC), Thomas Koenig wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  schrieb:   
   >   
   >> In modern languages, we do most dynamic allocations, especially large   
   >> ones, in the heap.   
   >   
   > Assume you have a fixed-size buffer for some sort of blocked algorithm.   
   > Where do you put it?  If you make your subroutine recursive, where it   
   > wasn't before, you suddenly end up using a lot more stack, which then   
   > can crash a user's program.   
   >   
   > And changing the default would cause that crash without source code   
   > modification... which is bad.   
      
   Precisely my point.   
      
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