Greg Haerr writes:
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> : So form of stack check would be nice, every function call seems a little to
> : much for a lowly 8086. How about on task switch or even interrupt (or is
> : this too late)? If the chosen size for the stack is too small, it can be
> : cured by modifying the binary rather than a full recompile.
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> : > Greg
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> My suggestion is that there would be a compile time option to turn on stack
> checking. This would be off for production release. Then, a user
> could debug their app, and possibly find that it was stack overflow as why
> the app failed...
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Sounds good. Would be implemented by the compiler, or the pre-processor?