Re: stack sizes, Segments

According to George Neuner  <gneuner2@comcast.net>:

Not standard compliant for sure, but you certainly can approximate
stack use in C:  just store (as byte*) the address of a local in your
top level function, and check the (absolute value of) the difference
to the address of a local in the current function.

Ugh, but yes that would work with the usual stack structure,

The bigger problem is knowing how much stack is available to use -
there may be no way (or no easy way) to find the actual size ... or
the limit if the stack expands ... and circumstances beyond the
program may have limited it to be smaller than the program requested.

There's often no way to tell since it may depend on things like
running out of swap space which depends on how much memory other
programs are using.

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