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From: duncant@mbunix.mitre.org (Thomson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Memory allocation
Keywords: stack size, heap, Lattice 5.04
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Date: 12 Jan 90 04:50:54 GMT
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Regarding the problem of stack usage with recursive functions, note that it
is possible to use static allocation of data structures with recursive 
functions, as long as the usage of the data structure does not span a recur-
sive call.

In the copyfile() example under consideration, it would appear to be safe to
allocate buff[ ... ] outside the function.  This would solve your stack 
overflow problems without any major code changes.

Duncan Thomson

P.S. I think the best book for learning C programming, on the Amiga as
well as on any other system, is the Kernighan and Ritchie classic, "The
C Programming Language."