Stack size is visible and settable. This article describes a non-issue. A programmer just has to be knowledgable about the tools at his disposal. Here's an example

cat <<EOF>demo.c

#include <sys/resource.h>

#include <stdio.h>

#include <unistd.h>

int main(int argc, char *argv[], char *envp[]) {

    struct rlimit rlp = { 0 };
    getrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlp);

    printf("stack size=%llu\n", rlp.rlim_cur);    
    if (rlp.rlim_cur < rlp.rlim_max) {
        printf("setting stack size to %llu\n", rlp.rlim_max);
        rlp.rlim_cur = rlp.rlim_max;
        setrlimit(RLIMIT_STACK, &rlp);
        execve(argv[0], argv, envp);
    }

}

EOF

make demo

./demo

Similarly, there is pthread_attr_setstacksize(3), which does the obvious thing for threads.