From: surendra
Subject: stack overflow - problem
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 01:50:26 +0000
Message-ID: <clus12$lt3$1@news.asu.edu>

Hi,
  I was running this LISP software SHOP-2 (a HTN planner). In its readme 
file it has the following lines:

"If you are using Allegro Lisp, and you encounter the following error 
message

     Error: Stack overflow (signal 1000)
       [condition type: SYNCHRONOUS-OPERATING-SYSTEM-SIGNAL]

Then please use the following command to increase the stack limit.

     (sys:set-stack-cushion 150000000)"

I am using clisp and it seems I am also running into stack overflow, i 
am getting the error message

*** - Lisp stack overfow. Reset

But I am not able to use the command suggested by them to increase the 
stack size. What is the ANSI standard command for increasing the stack 
size? If there is none, then is there any clisp specific command for 
doing that?

Thanks,
Surendra Singhi

From: Vladimir Sedach
Subject: Re: stack overflow - problem
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2004 16:47:23 +0000
Message-ID: <87sm7w7a2v.fsf@shawnews.cg.shawcable.net>

See the CLISP FAQ:
http://clisp.cons.org/faq.html#stack

Since the CLISP VM is written in C, you have to increase it's stack
size allowance in the OS environment (ulimit on Unices). As you can
see, this is highly implementation and OS dependent, so there is no
ANSI CL command for changing stack size. Also, make sure that your
functions are compiled, as interpreting them uses up some stack
overhead.

Vladimir