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On Mar 11, 3:45=A0pm, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
wrote:

> You can explicitly set the stack size for any task other than the main ta=
sk, but
> creating a task just to set stack size would be absurd, so I resorted to =
a
> pointer...

If you need a larger stack for some reason that can't be obviated by
using dynamic object allocation then creating an appropriate task is
the obvious way ... I needed to call an XML processing library that
needed >0.5 MB stack, using a task was the only way I could think of.
Worked a treat.