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From:Michal Bartczak
Date:05 Apr 00 at 18:29:59
Subject:Odp: Re: PPC Crashes when Multitasking

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Od: Alan Buxey <alanb@ftfir.mols.sussex.ac.uk>
Do: warpup-list@haage-partner.com <warpup-list@haage-partner.com>
Data: 5 kwietnia 2000 17:16
Temat: Re: [warpup] Re: PPC Crashes when Multitasking

>hi,
>
>
>> is now well known that all the Warp-os (and some Power-up) software seems
>> to need a really huge stack (500000 on most case). So what happen if you
>> launch 2 or more of those "stack-hungry" apps? Do you have to define a
>> 500000 stack for each PPC apps running on your system, or do they share a
>> unique stack, and so have we to increase that stack a bit more?
>
>*some* programs have to have a really big stack - usually quickly ported
(or
>badly ported) apps. And yes, if you open a new CLI you have to reset the
>stack - as the shell has its own default stack value.

Nice method is setting STACK 250000 [or more] inside shell-startup

It helps you to avoid typing 'stack blahblah' each time you start a shell :P

Michal