Hi Henk.

  We are too far from pure OS2, I fear it is not good... It seems to me,
you not very familiar with programming... mmm, are you sure that Os/2 is
better place to learn it?

 HdA> Suppose so. I'll change the struct a little, in such way it will be 4
 HdA> MB large. Then i'll recompile it again. I'll let you know.

  4Mb? How large it now? 2? :() Why don't you use malloc? Stack has two
good reason to store data on -- automatic destroying at return() and fact
that you do not need write -> (in C). But if you'll got a zero pointer
after malloc, you could do something with that, but if the same will take
place on stack, you'll got "stack overflow" in one case and
exception 0005 if you don't use stack checking. Anything more than 100
bytes should be allocated dinamically.

By the way, you don't need to set the value for your struct to find out
your unix compiler stack size -- just use recursion.

not checked -- just typed!
============ край земли ============
#include 

void Scaffold(long executed)
{
  char pie[1024];
  long executednow;

  executednow = executed+sizeof(pie);
  printf("executed more (total %8d)\n",executednow );
  Scaffold(executednow);
};

void main(){ Scaffold(0); }
============ край земли ============

P.S. Disable optimization! Else Watcom, f.ex., eliminate pie[1024], so,
you'll got wrong value. Or use pie somehow --
memset(pie,executed,sizeof(pie)) will be enough.

bye.   [Team OS/2]
dozen
SPb,Russia

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