From: marg AT okstate DOT edu (Carl Marg)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: Allegro problem
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 1999 22:58:47 GMT
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On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 20:58:05 GMT, marg AT okstate DOT edu (Carl Marg) wrote:

>On Wed, 03 Mar 1999 14:42:28 -0400, Endlisnis <s257m AT unb DOT ca> wrote:
>
>>    Well, there are a few [possible] problems.  First of all, you may be
>>running out of stack space depending on what resolution you are using.  If
>>your area is 1000x1000 then you could get more than 2000 levels of recursion.
>>And with 5 4-byte integers plus some stack overhead for each call you have way
>>more than 40k on the stack.  I don't know what the default size of a stack is
>>in DJGPP, but it can be changed.
>>    Also, this function would crash if it was run outside of a completely
>>closed figure because it never checks to see if it is off of the screen.
>
>my last trial was in a closed figure - 300x300 area
>it only does a small part of the fill before it crashes.
>Then it will do anything from gpf to hard lock to rebooting my
>computer. 
on the other hand, I think it must be the stack, I tried it for a very

small figure, and it worked all right
Now I just need to figure out how to change the stack size...