From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
Newsgroups:	comp.os.msdos.djgpp
Subject:	Re: question about stack frames
Date:	Fri, 31 Dec 1999 11:34:28 +0200
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deleveld AT my-deja DOT com wrote:
> 
> I am working on a recursive function that has to recursive
> quite a few times and I'd like to be able to calculate how many
> times the function can recurse without overflowing the stack.

You could make this test part of your code, by using the DJGPP library
function stackavail.  Then you won't need to worry about computing the
max recursion level in advance.

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