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From: ben@catnip.UUCP (Bennett Broder)
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Subject: Re: stack overflow with Usenet under Xenix/286
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Date: Wed, 2-Apr-86 00:08:47 EST
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In article <348@IMT3B2.UUCP>, don@IMT3B2.UUCP (Don Kossman of SEI Information Technology) writes:
> 
> 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.
> 
> We initially compiled using the suggested small impure model and the
> optimizer in 86 mode.  Large model and 286 mode doesn't help, nor does
> removing the optimizer option.  
> 
> This is the Microsoft C compiler, by the way.

Just use the -F flag to specify a larger stack.  I used -F 2000 and haven't
had a stack overflow since.

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Ben Broder
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