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Date:      Tue, 18 Jan 2000 04:36:43 +0200
From:      Iani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net>
To:        hackers@freebsd.org
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
Subject:   Re: The stack size for a process?
Message-ID:  <3883D1BB.391C9F0C@bulinfo.net>
References:  <200001180055.TAA17507@pcnet1.pcnet.com>

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Daniel Eischen wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > after making world of a CURRENT cvsupped yesterday, one of my
> > applications stopped working because of a Segmentation fault.
> >
> > The C procedure where the problem pops has about 64k local variables.
> > here's the assembly output of the procedure's beginning:
> >
> > 0x805bb60 <transaction_read_objects>:   pushl  %ebp
> > 0x805bb61 <transaction_read_objects+1>: movl   %esp,%ebp
> > 0x805bb63 <transaction_read_objects+3>: subl   $0x1000c,%esp
> > 0x805bb69 <transaction_read_objects+9>: pushl  %edi
> >
> >
> > The Segmentation fault happens when the process tries to push %edi in
> > the stack, which has been just decreased by 0x1000c.
> 
> Are you using threads?
> 

Yes, it does.
Do all the threads in a process use the same stack segment in some
way?

--iani


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