Take the 2-minute tour ×  I'm relatively new to Lisp (I just
know the very basics) and I'm currently trying to run an
algorithmic composition program created by David Cope. It runs
in MCL 5.0, and I keep getting the following error:  Error in
process play: Stack overflow on value stack. To globally
increase stack space, increase *minimum-stack-overflow-size*
Does anyone know what function I would use to increase the stack
overflow size and how I would calculate the best stack overflow
size for my computer? I'm running MCL on an old Powerbook with
512 MB of RAM.  Thanks for your time,   share|improve this
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It seems to say that you simply need to modify the special
variable *minimum-stack-overflow-size*. When you are at the REPL
(CL-USER> prompt or similar), inspect this variable by
evaluating its name:  CL-USER> *minimum-stack-overflow-size*
Then, set it to a bigger value (the 1234567 is just a
placeholder) with setf:  CL-USER> (setf *minimum-stac