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   Not necessarily the cause of a Stack Overflow error, IMO.  It's much 
more likely to be one of the following:
  1. Declaring large local structures (or many) in a subprogram that's 
called - nesting with other subprograms using significant amount of local 
variables...or not.  The issue is that at any given time during the 
program's execution, the _total_amount_ of Stack used cannot exceed the 
limits stated in the $M directive (which has a maximum of 64K bytes).
  2. Extreme nesting of procedures which use together use some local 
variables, so that the total exceeds the Stack limit.  This typically 
involves very convoluted structure/logic, something which might have 
evolved over a long time.  Could be very hard to track down...
  3. One of more recursive procedures which (1) recurse very deeply (due 
to data vagaries) and/or (2) which use a significant amount of local 
variables (such as strings).

> I'd bet you are defining a variable with the same name as the name of
> the variable you are passing in the procedure 
> is this what you have done?
> 
> procedure duck(goose : string);
> var goose : string;
> > 
> > Please help.  I have been working on this program for years.
> > 
> > I have a problem with Turbo Pascal 7.0.  I keep getting the 202 Stack
> > Overflow error.  I tried changing everything with the memory stack size to
> > maximun in the Option.  I was just wondering whether there is any way
> > around this problem.  I tried setting the stack check off {$S-} but the
> > progam became erratic.
> > 
> > As an aside, if I convert it to Turbo C++, would this still be a problem?