[redirected to gcc-help] Gowri Kumar CH writes: > Hi andrew, > >You just overflowed your stack. Increase the stack size for the program > > by using limit/ulimit or use dynamic allocated memory. > Thanks for the quick reply. By changing the size of the stack the > error goes away. > > Is this one of the things which we come to know by experience? > Or > Is there a way to find it out from the core/code generated? > This was a simple program with just a few lines. I'm wondering how > difficult it would be find this sort of errors in a large program. > It's just something you learn not to do. Small data on the stack, large data on the heap. Andrew.