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From: qwerty@drutx.ATT.COM (Brian Jones)
Newsgroups: rec.games.hack,comp.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Help w/ NETHACK & MSC v4.0
Message-ID: <5191@drutx.ATT.COM>
Date: Thu, 3-Sep-87 11:05:52 EDT
Article-I.D.: drutx.5191
Posted: Thu Sep  3 11:05:52 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 11:09:46 EDT
References: <616@hadron.UUCP> <3470@zen.berkeley.edu> <1079@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T, Denver
Lines: 37
Summary: Microsoft uses 16-byte units  WRONG! WRONG! WRONG!
Xref: mnetor rec.games.hack:1352 comp.sources.bugs:262

In article <1079@bsu-cs.UUCP>, dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi) writes:
) In article <3470@zen.berkeley.edu> iverson@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Tim 
) Iverson) writes (about setting a stack for hack.exe under MSDOS):
) 
) >I tried stacks up to 64k, but I always  ...
) 
) A lot of things under MS-DOS are measured in units of 16-byte clicks.
) Thus, when you specify a stack of 0xa00 bytes, you may be really
) specifying 0xa00 clicks, which is 0xa000 bytes or 40 kilobytes.  Since
) the stack segment can't exceed 64 kilobytes, specifying too large a
) stack will cause overflow.  Unfortunately, the Microsoft linker doesn't
) seem to give a warning when this happens, and just seems to use some
) unknown value instead.

The above 'information' is INCORRECT.

Both the MASM and MSC manuals specify the /STACK:number option as specifying
the number of BYTES to be allocated to the stack.

Also, the 16-byte 'clicks' are normally referred to as PARAGRAPHS.

) 
) Also note that, depending upon the memory model and the options you
) specify to the compiler, the stack may share a segment with static
) (non-stack) data, limiting the stack itself to less than a full
) segment.
) -- 

This is probably what's going on.

) Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  {ihnp4,seismo}!{iuvax,pur-ee}!bsu-cs!dhesi

Note: markings on included text changed to circumvent the silly software
checks.
-- 

Brian Jones  aka  {ihnp4,allegra}!{drutx}!qwerty  @  AT&T-IS, Denver