Date: Wed, 1 Apr 1998 18:00:16 -0800 (PST)
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Nate Eldredge <eldredge AT ap DOT net>
Subject: Re: Auto-symified traceback
Cc: George Foot <george DOT foot AT merton DOT oxford DOT ac DOT uk>, djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com
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At 11:12  4/1/1998 +0300, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
>On Tue, 31 Mar 1998, Nate Eldredge wrote:
>
>> This would also let us drop the restriction that only 9 (or so) levels of
>> backtrace are printed.
>
>This is already done.  I submitted a patch a couple of weeks ago whereby 
>the screen size in the BIOS data area is consulted, and the amount of 
>frames is limited by that (minus the area taken by registers' dump and 
>two lines for the DOS prompt and `symify' command line).

No, I know about that, but sometimes there are more levels than there are
lines on the screen, in which case some of them get lost.

>Of course, when writing to a file, screen size is irrelevant. 

That was my point. Writing to a file permits arbitrarily long tracebacks,
and has the further advantage of permanence.

> But please 
>note that some limit needs to be there, for those cases where the stack 
>is scrogged.

Okay.

Nate Eldredge
eldredge AT ap DOT net