Re: Stack Overflow in Turbo C

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From: Jerzy Tarasiuk
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1992 14:28

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>>>>> 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. 
Also note not every memory model allows 64kB stack.
Cheers, Jerzy

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