Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:02:23 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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Subject: Re: GP fault on a new -- why?
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On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Damon Casale wrote:

> >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*

More probably, 1 MB wasn't enough, either.  You could have infinite 
recursion on your hands, for example.