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Re: Patch to allow GSSAPI authentication to a socks5 server

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 15:21:24 -0800

On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 03:05:59PM -0800, Gary Maxwell wrote:
> Daniel Stenberg intoned:
>
> > * I'm not friends with large stack uses and 64K matches that
> > description imo.
>
> I intend to chime in whenever stack frame size issues come up, as a
> reminder to libcurl developers that there are many of us who use libcurl
> in constrained environments.
>
> For instance, in several of our embedded targets, the *total* stack size
> of libcurl's thread is 4Kbytes. And for now, libcurl runs just fine with
> that.
>
> Allocating large stack frame variables should be a definite no-no.

Something to this effect ought to be added to the docs/INTERNALS file.

>>> Dan

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