What does this error mean: `somefile.c:200: error: the frame size of 1032 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes`?

Question

During a make, I\'m seeing an error along the lines of:

cc1: warnings being treated as errors
somefile.c:200: error: the frame size of 1032 bytes is larger than         


        

Answer 1

I'm guessing there's some large buffer in that routine that is stack-allocated; this is likely causing the stack frame of that function to exceed 1024 bytes, which seems to be some compiler-enforced limit for the architecture upon which you are building. Possible solutions would include passing a compiler flag to relax the warning, expand the upper limit of the stack size, or dynamically allocating the buffer.