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From: owen@SUN.COM (Owen Densmore)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.news
Subject: Re:  C Client arrays
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Date: 7 Mar 89 01:40:30 GMT
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	One *VERY* big problem with this method is that the array data
	is being put on the stack of the server side liteweight
	process, so if you're trying to pass an array bigger than 1000
	words, look out for a stack overflow!  (I've heard there is a
	way to increase the stack size, but have never found out how).

The stack can be avoided by using an executable array:

	cdef arraystart() 
	       ArrayDataName {
	
	cdef arrayend()
	       } cvlit def

The cvlit converts this back to a vanilla array.  The stack does not
get used to create the array; the scanner takes care of it for you.

Owen