Requesting a larger stack using Ocaml.

Hi,

I often invoke Java's compiler from the command line in Terminal.  If I'm
implementing a Java program with a lot of heavy recursion in it, I can
apply the -Xss option to request more stack memory.  The default stack size
for Java is usually 500 Kb of RAM.  But this can be changed by using that
option.  For example:

*java -Xss4m Fibonacci*

Then my Fibonacci java program will have a larger than normal stack.
Rather than the default of 0.5 megs, now the program can use 4 megs of
memory.  That's great!  The Java user has the option of increasing the size
of the stack.

I've been playing around with a lot of recursion on lists in Ocaml.  And
normally Ocaml handles recursion very nicely and very quickly.  But there
are exceptions.  I created this one function where I add up the float
values in an approximation of the unit probability function defined on [0,
1].  Then I add up the values and divide by the number of values to get the
average.  ( Ideally the average is 0.5, but that's only if you use an
infinitely long list of values from that distribution. )  Then I put the
averages into another list.  If I'm requesting about 100,000 such values,
there's no problem.  But for 1,000,000 values Ocaml returns a warning
message about a possible looping recursion!  My function does indeed work
for values around 100,000, so my program logic is correct.  But it seems
that Ocaml's stack blows up if I want to create a list with a million of
those floating point values in it.  So is there some command line option
that I can use to tell Ocaml's compiler ( and interpreter ) that I want to
use a larger stack?

Thanks for the feedback.

Best,

Douglas.