[Rd] R crashes for large formulas in lm() (PR#8180)

[Ei-ji Nakama]

Hi,

Wed, 5 Oct 2005 13:38:12 +0100 (BST)
Prof Brian Ripley <ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk> wrote.
> This is almost certainly C stack overflow, which will be _very_ 
> OS-specific. I can run this 9-var example in Linux with a stacksize of 
> 30Mb, but not the default 10Mb. I tried it with the default stack under 
> valgrind, and it works.
> 
> Windows versions of R have I believe a stack of 8Mb, and so I suspect are 
> running close to that with 8-var example.
> 
> The problem appears to be recursion in StripTerm.

default of stack of ld for Mingw seems to be 2M.
see. binutils-2.16.91-20050827-1/ld/emultempl/pe.em
   289    D(SizeOfStackReserve,"__size_of_stack_reserve__", 0x200000),

How about adding the following to MkRules?
MINGW32LDFLAG=-Wl,--stack=33554432
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