When do you worry about stack size?

Question

When you are programming in a language that allows you to use automatic allocation for very large objects, when and how do you worry about stack size? Are there any rules o

Answer 1

When do you worry about stack size?

Never.

If you have stack size problems it means you're doing something else wrong and should fix that instead of worrying about stack size.
For instace:

• Allocating unreasonably large structures on the stack - don't do it. allocate on the heap.
• Having a ridiculously long recursion. I mean in the order of painting an image and iterating over the pixels using recursion. - find a better way to do it.