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From: swilson%thetone@Sun.COM (Scott Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: What goes on stack?
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Date: 20 Oct 88 21:44:51 GMT
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>  Help!  I'm working with Turbo C version 1.5.  My program is large (about
>30,000 lines) and deals with large arrays (static and dynamic) and many
>[...]
>  Other than return addresses, register values, and paramaters, what else
>does Turbo C put on the stack?

The other important category that uses stack space is the non-register
local variables of a function.  If the "large arrays (... dynamic)" that
you refer to are a function's local data (as opposed to mallocing space
for an array) then this is probably where your problem is.


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