Re: [Bug-glpk] stack overflow error in version 4.17 compiled with VC8

[Andrew Makhorin]

> I am using GLPK version 4.17 as a multi-threaded DLL compiled with
> visual studio 2005 for windows (version VC8).
> GLPK is used in a column generation algorithm.  Multiple iterations of
> adding some columns, solving LP, retrieving primal and dual variable
> information.
> For problem sizes around 3500 columns the DLL crashes with a stack 
> overflow error.  The error occurs in the retrieval routines
> after the lpx_simplex function has successfully completed, typically in
> get_col_prim or get_col_dual.
> Small problem instances are solved correctly.
> Is this a bug or an inherent limitation.  Can the limitation be 
> circumvented?

It is neither a bug nor limitation. I think that the problem can be
resolved by increasing the stack size, say, to 1 or 2Mb; you just need
to add corresponding option in the makefile (see CFLAGS variable).