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From: BAXTER_A@wehi.dn.mu.oz
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: stack setting?
Message-ID: <9779@wehi.dn.mu.oz>
Date: 6 Jul 90 19:43:11 GMT
References: <13580002@hpspdra.HP.COM> <13009@cbmvax.commodore.com>
Organization: Walter & Eliza Hall Institute
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In article <13009@cbmvax.commodore.com>, kevin@cbmvax.commodore.com (Kevin Klop) writes:
> In article <13580002@hpspdra.HP.COM> ric@hpspdra.HP.COM (Ric Peregrino) writes:
>>I have ported a wave editor program to the amiga and found that the 
>>default stack of 4000 is too small. I tried using a system call in
>>the program to automatically set the stack, but it seems to fail.
>>Anybody know why this is, or how it can be done? 
>>
>>#include <stdio.h>
>>#include <stdlib.h>
>>
>>void main(void) {
>>
>>printf("setting stack to 8192\n");
> start a new process and have it execute the following command.
> 
> Thus, system("stack 8192"); means
> 
> start a new process, change that process' stack size to 8192, then
> exit that process.
> 
> Note that this does NOT affect the stack size of the process ISSUING the
> system() call.


Note however that you CAN use the Lattice functio Execute like this:

Execute("stack 8192\n programname");

(with the other arguments, which escape my mind at the moment)

Regards Alan