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From: jerry@utrc-2at.UUCP (Jerry J. Deroo)
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Subject: Re: stack overflow with Usenet under Xenix/286
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Date: Thu, 3-Apr-86 12:27:43 EST
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> Having installed the usenet "B" package on our IBM-PC/AT running SCO-
> XENIX-286, we get an immediate "stack overflow, segmentation fault"
> message when we try to run "Vnews", or anything else, for that matter.
> 

this is yet another example of posted code's "all the world is a vax"
syndrome.

I have run into the same thing on Plexus machines, and Pixels, and an
Elxsi 6400 as well.

I got around it by looking for all large structures and arrays that
were declared as dynamic variables in a function.. move their
declaration outside the function body, maybe change the name, etc.

(this is an AT runing Xenix 3.0)

source code is available...email me
-- 
      Jerry J. Deroo
      utzoo!yetti!utrc-2at!jerry