[fpc-pascal] Find error? ... memory

[Peter Vreman]

>> Regarding the EOutOfMemory exception, is that thrown only when all
>> (physical+virtual) memory is exhausted?
>
> I don't know, but perhaps you need a bigger stack and/or heap. (We've had
> to increase ours a couple times; I don't know what the defaults are)
>
> From the programmer's manual:
> {$M StackSize, HeapSize}
> where StackSize and HeapSize are integer values, greater than 1024. [...]
> (Stack setting is ignored under linux, netbsd and freebsd)
>
> Although in my experience, the stack setting is not ignored under linux.
> We have hit stack overflow errors which went away after increasing the
> stack size with this setting. So maybe it depends on the kernel or the
> version of fpc... dunno. Incidentally, we were recently having some
> trouble with stack overflows with the 2.6.7 kernel, and went back to
> 2.4.26, which seems to work fine.

Stack checking is rewritten in 1.9.x. It is now platform independent. The
remark in the programmers manual is from the 1.0.x series