There are at least two options: 1. On Windows, if you have Visual Studio available, the stack for an executable may be raised with editbin. For example, to raise the stack to 8MB for the acpia6x parser, you would use: editbin /stack:8388608 acpia6x.exe 2. Use the linux toolchain. The default stack is much higher. Even if that limit is reached, the soft limit for the stack size of user applications may be raised with ulimit. For example, to raise the stack to 16MB, you would use: ulimit -S -s 16384 (This could be placed in the startup script, such as .bashrc)