Gentle list members,

I have frequently met with stack overflows in PASCAL/V.
Can I have a preliminary guess at compilation about the needed stack,
from the table of variables when one procedure calls another.
I have learned that I have pass long records and arrays as VAR, even if
they must not change in the called program.

On the other hand, the PASCAL/V compiler does like large procedures:
itself aborts with stack overflow. I have segmented my programs frequently
not according my original intention but when the compiler forced me.

Have you any advices, rules of thumb, how can I avoid stack overflows?

I wish I have read HP-3000L in 1990, when I met these problems for the
first time.

Last time I got a false run-time alarm: INTEGER OVERFLOW instead of STACK
OVERFLOW.

                        TIA
                                             Frank

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