Controlling an executable’s stack size

I needed to increase the default stack size (8 Mb on Mac OS X Mavericks) allocated to an executable.

Building GCC 4.8.0

These notes describe building GCC 4.8.0 for Mac OS X, with Ada, C, C++, Fortran, Objective C, Objective C++, and various GNAT tools.

Patched GCC!

I just had a patch accepted to GCC! gcc/ada/init.c, r195862.

2013-02-07  Simon Wright  <simon@pushface.org>

 PR target/50678
 * init.c (__darwin_major_version): New function for x86-64/Darwin.
 (__gnat_adjust_context_for_raise) [Darwin]: Disable the workaround
 on Darwin 12 and above.

Tracking down a Program_Error

A StackOverflow question about a Storage_Error exception when trying to implement a FastCGI example in Ada prompted me to investigate.