Re: Representing image data

[Brian Drummond <brian_drummond@btconnect.com>]

On Wed, 11 Mar 2009 13:12:38 -0700 (PDT), sjw <simon.j.wright@mac.com> wrote:

>On Mar 11, 3:45�pm, Brian Drummond <brian_drumm...@btconnect.com>
>wrote:
>
>> You can explicitly set the stack size for any task other than the main task, 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.

Thanks. Good to know I wasn't completely crazy for contemplating it, 
though in this specific case I think it would have been overkill.

- Brian