I am having trouble overflowing the stack.
How big is the stack?
Pilot main is called by the OS.
This function calls a "normal launch" function which calls a third
function which calls a 4th and a 5th. the last three functions can open
forms, but I never pass large data structures - only pointers.
If an alarm rings when I am the 5th form Pilot main will call a certain
"diplay alarm" like function which calls the 4th and then the 5th
function above (opening duplicate forms - yes wasteful of RAM but it
shouldn't affect the stack). But at this I overflow the at the (5th)
FrmInitForm call.
I am not an expert programmer. But I would have thought that the two
"instances" of the program (the NormalLunch and the DisplayAlarm) would
be using a different stack and even if they weren't it is only 8 levels
deep. I would have thought C and PalmOS could handle at least 50.
How big is the stack anyway?
How deep can I __safely__ nest my function calls (assuming I stick to
passing only one or two pointers)? Maybe my overloading the stack is
what is causing all the API crashes I am having lately (see previous
messages).
derik
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