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From: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Turbo C stack (making it bigger)
Message-ID: <1856@krafla.rhi.hi.is>
Date: 21 Jul 90 18:42:05 GMT
References: <90Jul19.223807edt.20138@me.utoronto.ca> <1990Jul20.171212.6970@ucselx.sdsu.edu>
Reply-To: einari@rhi.hi.is (Einar Indridason)
Organization: University of Iceland (RHI)
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In article <1990Jul20.171212.6970@ucselx.sdsu.edu> weston@ucselx.sdsu.edu (weston t) writes:
>changing default stack size in turbo 1.5:
>
> i use turbo 2.0, but i'm assuming it is the same. _stklen is defined
>in a module in the appropriate library (cs.lib??) called STKLEN. to
>change it i just patched the constant, which in the large model is 
>4k (1000 hex, written 0010 in a hex dump). for my large model, i just
>changed 0010 to 0020 (8k decimal) with norton's hex editor. you ought

Much simpler way to do that:

...
extern unsigned _stklen = <DESIRED SIZE OF STACK>

main()
{
....
}

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