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In article <8tb0mj$j4s$1@news.chorus.net>, Joe Hagen
<jdhagen@chorus.net> writes:
>[I had written:]
>> This ought to be an easy question, but I'm drawing a blank
>> digging through the documentation.  What's the right way to
>> set a non-default (i.e. bigger, to avoid overflows) stack size
>> under BC++ 4.5?
> 
> In your main module put the following line
> at file scope:
>    extern unsigned _stklen=xxxx;

Thanks.  As a matter of fact, I had tried that, but since I
wasn't sure it was right and it didn't seem to help, I didn't
mention it at first.

There are two possible reasons for a stack overflow, of course.
One is that the stack isn't big enough for the call depth of your
program, and one is that you've got an infinitely recursive call,
that will chew up any stack, no matter how big.  It looks like I
had one of the latter.  (Not in an obvious way, though; it looks
like I picked a name for a new function of mine which matched a
library function of some sort, and the combination of my function
and the library's expectations for its function caused the
infinite recursion.  But changing the name of my function made
the problem go away.)

Also, thirty lashes with a wet noodle to me for neglecting to
check the FAQ list for comp.os.msdos.programmer, which answers
the question I asked, plain as day.

					Steve Summit
					scs@eskimo.com