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From: stever@Octopus.COM (Steve Resnick )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.programmer
Subject: Re: How to modify _stklen in Turbo C 2.0
Message-ID: <1990May7.180645.12074@Octopus.COM>
Date: 7 May 90 18:06:45 GMT
References: <1990May6.195629.6368@cs.umn.edu>
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In article <1990May6.195629.6368@cs.umn.edu> swie@cs.umn.edu (S. T. Tan) writes:
>Could anybody tell me how to modify the stack size in Turbo C 2.0 ?
>I get an error message "Stack Overflow!" when I run my program (NON-recursive).
>

One of the things I dislike about the Turbo C runtime is that the stack is not
allocated based on the .EXE header. Instead, the variable _stklen is used to
determine the stack length. In one (only one) of your source files put a line

unsigned _stklen = <stack size in bytes> ;

This will cause a duplicate symbol warning by the linker but your new symbol 
takes precedence. BTW - This is buried somewhere in the TC manual. :)

Hope this helps...

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