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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Question about SCO Xenix and stack size
Message-ID: <595@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 22 Apr 89 17:26:20 GMT
References: <12743@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU>
Reply-To: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Organization: Intelligent Software Products, Inc.
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In article <12743@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> c184-bw@holden.Berkeley.EDU (Percy "Mr. Fun" Schwartz) writes:
}
}I recently ported a program from an Altos 2086 running Altos Xenix 
}3.4b to an 80286 based AT clone running SCO Xenix 2.2.1.
}The program compiles and links O.K. but it dumps core at run time, 
}giving the classic "Stack overflow - Bus error: core dumped" message.
}
}Can somebody tell me how I can increase the stack size?  
}What is the default stack size for the SCO (Microsoft?) compiler?
}(I know I should RTFM but its in another office that I can't get to - 
}no flames please):-).

When loading you can use the "-F" option to set the size of the stack. 
Otherwise you can use the "fixhdr" program to do the same thing.




JB
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