Product: MailEnable IMAP (Version 2.37/8)
Function/Size: 0×40FC59, 251,040-bytes (245.15 KB).
Here we have a prime example, and the original motivation for the creation of stacksofshame.com. Upon discovering this “gem” a few months ago, I can honestly say I almost cried. For the future of humanity is bleak if we continue to recklessly waste resources in such a slap hazard manner as the developers of MailEnable.

To put this example into context, consider that 251,040-bytes is 3.83 times more memory than that available in the Commodore C64. Furthermore, people are actually asked to pay for this cruft, is it any wonder memory requirements on software is increasing at an alarming rate? quite how allocating 251,040-bytes of local stack space for a SINGLE STACK FRAME can be accepted is beyond my comprehension.

Here we have the first of a recurrence for stacksofshame.com, that is, a truly shameful stack-frame.

Product: BusinessMail POP3 (Version 4.70).
Function/Size: 0×406DF3, 12,256-bytes (11.04 KB).
Quite why the author thought he should allocate 12,256-bytes of stack space is truly beyond me, has he never heard of malloc()?.