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From: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Is she c:Stack'd
Message-ID: <231@estinc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Oct 89 21:37:03 GMT
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Reply-To: fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish)
Organization: Enhanced Software Technologies, Inc.
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In article <4837@cps3xx.UUCP> porkka@frith.UUCP (Joe Porkka) writes:
>What I do for my own programs is have them set the stack themselves.
>I use the technique by Werner Guenther (not sure about spelling) to
>detach from the CLI by splitting the first segment away from the
>rest, then do a CreateProc and have it set the
>stack size this way.

I just had a need to set my own stack also, in a program that was being
run from another program via Execute().  It turns out that the child
process was getting a 4K stack no matter what stack the parent process had.
Following a tip from John Toebes (thanks John!) I changed the call to
the Execute() command to look something like:

	Execute ("stack 40000\nmyprogram", ...)

which worked just fine.

-Fred
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