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> > In any case, I'm convinced that it's necessary in order to fully support
> > C-Threads.
> 
> Stacks in seperate address spaces are needed to fully support C-Threads?

I'm convinced that you must *fully* share thread stacks in order to
be backwards compatible for C-Threads.  You don't *have* to do that, but
then we're no longer backwards compatible.


Nate