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SAS Stack setting?

    02-Jan-93 19:27:40
Sb: SAS Stack setting?
Fm: Harold Scadden 71401,3035
To: All
Got a guestion for any of you SAS C Guru's … I just picked up V6.0 today and I was trying to do some work with background task. I thought that setting the option "long __stacksize = xxxx;" would allow me to set the stack that my task would be running at vice what the CLI etc.. that it was executed from. What is the real beef with this? I set the value to 8k and stack my CLI stack to 20k … and when I ran the program it had a 20k stack! Is there a way to compile/link somehow so I can set my stack size without a doubt. I am running to problems writing doors for various BBS programs that require rather large stacks. I dont want a program of mine that only uses about 200 or so bytes to be ran with a 40k + stack! Its a waste of memory, and when you are running 12+ lines each memory waste adds up REAL fast. I would appreciate any help or if you have a code example to show me some other way to do the same thing … that would be nice.