Re: setting stack size under BC4.5

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From: me
Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 23:44

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Steve Summit <scs@eskimo.com> wrote:
> 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. 

There's a third (a fake one) and that only happens if you're using 
ISR's.  In that case, you just need to disable stack checking.

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