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Re: Stack Overflow in Turbo C

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From: George Jetson
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 17:00
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In article <JT.92Oct6152841@fizyk1.fuw.edu.pl> jt@fuw.edu.pl (Jerzy Tarasiuk) writes:
>>>>>> On 4 Oct 92 12:12:17 CDT, haydedr@wkuvx1.bitnet said:
>h> In article <WAYNE.92Oct4013500@dew.cs.odu.edu>, wayne@dew.cs.odu.edu (C Wayne Huling) writes:
>> I am using turbo C, and am having a stack overflow, my books tell me how to 
>> find the problem, but now how to solve the problem.  Any suggestions?
>h> Well, you could increase your stack size.  To do this in Turbo C++
>...
>h> extern unsigned _stklen = 543210U;
			      ^^^^^^^
>
>Note unsigned has range from 0 to 0xFFFF(=65535U), don't try use
>bigger values because compiler will truncate high-order bits. 

Over in AFU, they blame this sort of thing on its being September again...

I think 543210 is obviously a placeholder - it is not to be taken
seriously.  It would have been clearer, I suppose to have written:

	123456789U

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From: pynq@quads.uchicago.edu (George Jetson)
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