Stack overflow with Data.Binary

[Grzegorz]

Christian Maeder <maeder <at> tzi.de> writes:

> 
> The file "okok" has 3816117 bytes and "-K11m" is sufficient ("-K10m" is
> not).
> 
> That's just above the amount of stack size used without complaining
> (8388608 bytes) when profiling is switched off.

Now I may be missing something but I don't see why the amount of data to process
should matter for stack size: isn't this data going to be allocated on the heap?
I thought stack was for function frames and such...
Best,
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Grzegorz