running out of stack space on a PC

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From: Gordon Royle
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 08:46

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I am trying to set a decent size project for my students, who use 
Arity Prolog on IBM-PCs. The trouble is that even the most modest Prolog
program runs out of stack space more or less immediately. (For example,
a Turing machine simulator that I got them to write only runs for a hundred
or so steps before running out of space).

Does anyone have any suggestions that might help? (this might be a DOS 
problem rather than a Prolog program, just knowing that fact might help a
bit). Will a different Prolog (eg Prolog2) be better?

Cheers

gordon

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