At 12:10 AM 4/28/98 -0400, you wrote:
>Can someone expand on what the stack setting is all about..???
>thanks,
>Dave Hurst
>
A stack comes from recursive and re-entrant program routines. as an example,
in the program main & subroutine sub

main()
{
char A;
sub();
}

sub()
{
char A;
sub();
}

The variable A is allocated in a memory stack each time the subroutine is
called.  In the above case an infinite number of times.  The stacks
configuration command puts a limit on this process and the program will
crash when the limit is exceeded.

Think of the stack as each time a process is started it takes a new piece
of paper from the stack to record any data unique to the process.  The
stack is the number of pieces of paper you start with.



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