topic Stack overflow in Intel® Fortran Compiler

Stack overflow

bcartolos — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:26:36 GMT

Hi all,

I am coding a little fea solver. I use imsl to solve the stiffness matrix but I get a stack overflow error when I refine my solution (The program works well with a limited number of nodes, when I attempt to solve more exact solution the error appears)

The error I get is this:

Unhandled exception at 0x000000014023e1b7 in Problema1.exe: 0xC00000FD: Stack overflow.

The line that is causing the problem is located in a subroutine called from the main program

[fortran]Desp(DI) = Rigidez(DI, DI) .ix. F(DI)[/fortran]

Rigidez, Desp and F are variables declared in a module called Globals

[fortran]real(8), allocatable:: Rigidez(:,:)

real(8), allocatable:: Desp(:)

real(8), allocatable:: F(:)
[/fortran]

DI is a vector declared inside the subroutine and the values are set by another subroutine

[fortran]integer,allocatable:: DI(:)

call DIncognitas(DI, NDI)[/fortran]

Best Regards

Stack overflow

Les_Neilson — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:39:24 GMT

You can, if you wish, increase the stack size in the project settings :

Project->Properties->Linker->System-> Stack Reserve Size

You can also force temporary arrays to be allocated on the heap instead of the stack

Project->Properties->Fortran->Optimization->Heap Arrays 0 (zero)

Les

Stack overflow

bcartolos — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:48:37 GMT

Thank Les for your reply

How large should the stack reserve be?

and also Changing the stack size will not affect performance?

Best Regards

Stack overflow

Les_Neilson — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:03:01 GMT

I just took a quick look at one of our (smaller) projects and it is set to 4,000,000
(another, mixed language project, sets the stack at 8Gb!)

I doubt you will notice any performance issues unless you profile the code.

Les

Stack overflow

bcartolos — Thu, 28 Oct 2010 12:31:03 GMT

Thank you very much for your answer

Best Regards

Stack overflow

bcartolos — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 23:39:13 GMT

It's me again

I try to keep refining my solution but another error appeared:

[bash]forrtl: severe (41): insufficient virtual memory[/bash]

Can that restriction be circumvented?

Best Regards

Stack overflow

Steven_L_Intel1 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 00:19:13 GMT

The stack is limited to 1GB in Windows. You may be bumping into the 2GB addressable limit in 32-bit Windows. How much data are you trying to allocate? Are you building a 64-bit application? The exception address in the first post suggests you are.