How do I increase the stack size in a slime session.
I can do it in the terminal with:
$> sbcl --control-stack-size 5
How do I do this in slime?
In your emacs init.el or .emacs file you can include program arguments in the settings of slime-lisp-implementations. For example:
;; Set available Lisp implementations
(setq slime-lisp-implementations
'((sbcl ("/usr/local/bin/sbcl" "--control-stack-size" "5"))
(cmucl ("lisp"))
(ccl ("ccl64"))
(clisp ("clisp"))))
Responding to an OP comment:
... will the new stack size hold if I create an executable?
That depends on how you create the executable. You can't use save-lisp-and-die from a Slime repl, but you can use it from an SBCL repl. You can use the :save-runtime-options key argument which saves the --dynamic-space-size and --control-stack-size runtime options. E.g., you could do this from a terminal window to create an executable named my-exe with a custom control stack size:
$ sbcl --control-stack-size 5 \
> --load "my-source-file.lisp" \
> --eval "(sb-ext:save-lisp-and-die #p\"my-exe\" \
> :toplevel #'main \
> :executable t \
> :save-runtime-options t)" \
> --eval "(quit)"