PE>> icc /B"/stack:50000" fred.c

HdA> That works. The reason why i'm amazed is that Unix can determine the 
HdA> correct 

No it can't.

HdA> or a sufficiently large amount of stack, 

That's only one compiler you have tried using on Unix.

HdA> and OS/2 seemingly can't. 

And one compiler for OS/2.  Would you like me to create an OS/2 compiler
that creates a "sufficiently large amount of stack" (50 meg)? 
Hint, all I'm going to do is patch gcc, which I have the source code to.

BFN.  Paul.
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