Re: Increase run-time stack size

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From: Neil Weisenfeld
Date: Thu, 28 Jun 1990 23:33

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In article <32559@ut-emx.UUCP> ycy@walt.cc.utexas.edu (Joseph Yip) writes:
>Hi,
>
>I have not been programming pc for some time. I am using Microsoft C
>Version 5 to compiler some C code. I run into stack overflow  during
>run-time. The problem is due to the size of arrays I declare.
>
>Please give me some hints to avoid stack overflow. As I recall,
>one can put a stack size in main() file or use switches to specify 
>stack size during linking.
>
>Thank you.
>
>- Joseph

You can link with the /STACK option:
  link xx.obj yyy.obj,,,zzz.lib/STACK:10000;

will give you a 10000 byte stack space.  You can also use the EXEMOD
program to expand the stack size of an executable without re-linking.

Under MSC 6.00, I think that EXEMOD has a different name.

-Neil

(just my hopefully correct $0.02)

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