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Adaddict wrote:
> I know this questions must seem stupid (I'm sure they really are), but I'm
> getting desesperated because I'm not getting those ways of setting the
> stack size to work.
> 
> Sorry for being a nuisance.
> 
> Regards.
> 

I've always tried to find ways of avoiding having the main task require 
a large stack. On some OSs, there is no good way to do it at link time 
at all. Is there any way you can restructure your code so you don't need 
a large stack (e.g. If there is a set of large variables within the

procedure blah is
   large variables

begin

end;

then moving all of the large variables to a package spec that the 
procedure blah withs will reduce the stack space.

If it is the sum of lots of littler things through the program then 
perhaps using the storage_size attribute on a new task that does all of 
the real work of the program (with the main thread just terminating) 
will work.