stack overflow error in C++ program

Question

So i have this complex class , and i want to have an 2d array of complex numbers this is part of the code not all the code

class Complex {
public:
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Answer 1

Visual studio defaults to 1MB stack size, it looks like:

Complex G[HEIGHT][WIDTH];

will be just about 1MB, you can modify this using /F and the document says (emphasis mine):

Without this option the stack size defaults to 1 MB. The number argument can be in decimal or C-language notation. The argument can range from 1 to the maximum stack size accepted by the linker. The linker rounds up the specified value to the nearest 4 bytes. The space between /F and numberis optional.

The most obvious alternative would be to use dynamic memory allocation via new or std::vector.

Visual Studio as far as I know actually has one of the smaller default stack sizes:

platform    default size       
=====================================
SunOS/Solaris  8192K bytes
Linux          8192K bytes
Windows        1024K bytes
cygwin         2048K bytes
Mac OS X       8192K bytes