Michael:
Where can I find the default size for the watcom stack?
If you use "stack=4096", it means the default stack size might be much
smaller than the 16384 I am using.
Santiago
On Thu, Dec 20, 2012 at 2:42 PM, Michael B. Brutman
<mbbrut...@brutman.com>wrote:
>
> First, the good news - Watcom includes code at the start and end of each
> function to detect stack overflows. It is a lot easier to debug code
> when you know what the root cause of the problem is. If the stack
> overflow were to happen and remain silent, you could have all sorts of
> strange behavior.
>
> - Don't allocate large structures on the stack. That is the first
> problem. 8KB for a stack object is pretty large. Use malloc or other
> dynamic memory allocation instead.
>
> - If you need a large stack because you have lots of functions calling
> each other or are writing recursive code, there is a linker option to
> increase the size of the stack. The default size is small. I usually
> use "stack=4096" on my mTCP apps to increase the size to something more
> reasonable for my code. You can figure out the correct value for your
> code by trial and error or by doing a careful analysis of your code.
>
>
> Mike
>
>
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