Help: IFC stack overflow

Hi,

I have a module with many global arrays,

!------------------------------------------------------
module Global
integer, save :: dims(4)=(/0,0,0,0/)
real (kind = 8), save, allocatable :: A(:,:,:,:)
! save data read from a file
real (kind = 8), save, allocatable :: B(:,:,:,:) ! B to E
have the same size
real (kind = 8), save, allocatable :: C(:,:,:,:) ! as A
real (kind = 8), save, allocatable :: D(:,:,:,:)
real (kind = 8), save, allocatable :: E(:,:,:,:)
. . .
. . .
. . .
logical, save, allocatable :: L(:,:,:,:)

contains
!
! subroutines here
!
end module Global
!--------------------------------------------------------

When I read in the dimensional information to dims, these arrays can
be allocated.

The process is
* read in dimensions
* allocate A, populate A using file stream I/O
* allocate B, save intermediate results in B (e.g. sub1(B,A))
* allocate C, do something like sub2(C,B)
etc

Everything works fine when I compile the codes with g95.

However, when I tried to use Intel Fortran compiler 9, it only works
when the data size is relatively small, say dims= (/30,30,8,30/). For
large dimensions like dims=(/256,256,25,30/), it crashes when I call
sub3 to allocate D array. The error report is stack overflow:

forrtl: severe (170): Program Exception - stack overflow
( I have not found the error code 'severe (170)' in Intel docs)

The computer has plenty of memory (4GB). I also check the status
after each allocate statement.

I am wondering why the data size matters.
Is it related to the 'save' attribute?
Will it be helpful if I reduce the number of those global arrays?

Any suggestions and comments are welcome.

Thanks.

Ben

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