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Subject: Re: Too low PTHREAD_STACK_MIN value?
From: David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org>
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On 12 Mar 2014, at 02:07, Roger Pau Monn=E9 <roger.pau@citrix.com> =
wrote:

> I've found out that the value PTHREAD_STACK_MIN is currently set (2048
> bytes) seems to be way too low

This looks like an error in your code.  The spec says:

> PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
> Minimum size in bytes of thread stack storage.
> Minimum Acceptable Value: 0

It is meant to be the minimum value that the system can give for a =
thread stack.  The purpose of this constant is for languages that do =
their own stack management bit some chain of activation records of =
segmented stacks, but want to use pthreads for threading, so that they =
can allocate the smallest possible stack that allows pthread cleanup to =
work. =20

Using it from C code is very likely to be a mistake.

David