-16 Mar 97  16:52:58-

=Henk den Adel babbled to All about trap 0005=



 HdA> problems are solved under OS/2 and DOS; the reason probably is that

 HdA> the struct is placed in the data segment.



Yes, "static" places the structure in the data segment.

 

 HdA> The same result (under OS/2 and DOS) could be achieved when static is

 HdA> omitted when simultaneously the stack size was enlarged to

 HdA> STACK:50000. 

 HdA> I would appreciate if anyone could explain me why the stack is not

 HdA> automatically chosen to be sufficiently large, or better how to order

 HdA> the compiler to choose the right stack size. I'm using ibm's C

 HdA> compiler, version 2.01. 



The reason is that the compiler does not know how large to make the

stack, so it uses a default size.  That function needs 40k of stack. 

What if that function called a function in another source file that

needs another 40k of stack.  How is the compiler to know this? 

Anyways, it's the linker that actually makes the stack definitions, and

it doesn't know how much you've used.  Just make your stack large

enough.



Mike Phillips

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