From: damon AT WRONG DOT redshift DOT com (Damon Casale)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject: Re: GP fault on a new -- why?
Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 05:38:53 GMT
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On Wed, 21 Feb 2001 19:13:58 +0200 (IST), Eli Zaretskii
<eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il> wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, Damon Casale wrote:
>
>> The routine I had written which exhibited this problem was a recursive
>> add-to-linked-list function.
>
>Problems with deeply recursive functions are indeed one of the possible 
>causes for crashes inside CWSDPMI.  If your recursion is so deep that it 
>overflows the 512K stack, you can overwrite crucial data structures in 
>the DJGPP exception handlers and get such crashes.

I tried setting _stklen to 1 meg, but that didn't seem to help.  Maybe I
didn't do that right.  *shrugs*

Damon Casale, damon AT WRONG DOT redshift DOT com (remove the obvious)
"Warning:  Playing 'Jenga' with your stack may be hazardous to your
health."