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From: dor@beach.cis.ufl.edu (Douglas R. Oosting)
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Subject: Re: Help with stack overflow
Keywords: turbo  error trapping  help   stack
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Date: 12 Apr 90 17:20:29 GMT
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In article <2577@rwthinf.UUCP> pmk@cip-s01.UUCP (Michael Keukert) writes:
[a very long and detailed way to implement automatic exit code and error
handler in Turbo 5.0, deleted.]

That IS the way I have this done...it works properly too..HOWEVER, the
problem with this method is when the error is a stack overflow,
MY ROUTINE DOES *NOT* EXECUTE.  Apparently, seeing as it is a user routine,
Turbo refuses to try to run it as it cannot push it onto the stack.
That is the thrust of my question...apparetnly there are pointers in the
SYSTEM unit (stackptr and stacklimit or something like that) which could
be used to determine the current stack size...but it seems a mite cumbersome
(if not well-nigh impossible) to check these before every function call!

I did neglect ot mention that my stack size for the program is set to the
max that turbo will handle ... 65520 bytes...

Any other input?  Thanks...
Doug Oosting

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