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Sep 17, 2008 · What is their scope? The stack is attached to a thread, so when the thread exits the stack is reclaimed. The heap is typically allocated at application startup by the runtime, and is reclaimed when the application (technically process) exits. What determines the size of each of them? The size of the stack is set when a thread is created.

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@D.W. the stack protection should be turned off in a release version, because at first -- the stack smashing detected message is a help only for a developers; at second -- an application could have yet chances to survive; and at third -- this is a tiny optimization.

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Oct 18, 2008 · Stack overflow means exactly that: a stack overflows. Usually there's a one stack in the program that contains local-scope variables and addresses where to return when execution of a routine ends. That stack tends to be a fixed memory range somewhere in the memory, therefore it's limited how much it can contain values. If the stack is empty you can't pop, if you do you'll …

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