jmm@thoth8.berkeley.edu.BERKELEY.EDU (11/18/87)
IM vol. 1 says that when using Copybits, you should make sure that you don't use more than half the available stack space, and says that a good "rule of thumb" is to not copy more than 3K. How can I find out from Lightspeed Pascal what the actual space remaining on the stack is, so I don't have to worry about my thumb being wrong? James Moore ..!ucbvax!leggatt!jmm
lippin@spam.UUCP (11/19/87)
Recently jmm@thoth8.berkeley.edu () said: >IM vol. 1 says that when using Copybits, you should make sure that you >don't use more than half the available stack space, and says that a good >"rule of thumb" is to not copy more than 3K. How can I find out from >Lightspeed Pascal what the actual space remaining on the stack is, so I don't >have to worry about my thumb being wrong? I think that one of the changes made with system 4.1(?) was to fix CopyBits so it wouldn't assume the stack was infinite, and now it takes appropriate steps to copy without writing into the heap. So you likely don't need to worry about it. --Tom Lippincott ..ucbvax!bosco!lippin This posting is being sent to thousands of machines, throughout the civilized world!