Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 19:27:11 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: Iani Brankov <ian@bulinfo.net> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, Jason Evans <jasone@canonware.com> Subject: Re: The stack size for a process? Message-ID: <200001180327.TAA18698@apollo.backplane.com> References: <200001180055.TAA17507@pcnet1.pcnet.com> <3883D1BB.391C9F0C@bulinfo.net> <20000117183902.B27689@sturm.canonware.com> <3883D60A.BA0BAF37@bulinfo.net>
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:Jason Evans wrote: : :[snip] : :> :> Thread stacks have a default size of 64kB. libc_r now uses growable stacks :> with "guard pages" between stacks to try to catch stack overflow. It looks :> like it did you some good. =) :> :> You will need to specify an alternate stack during thread creation to get :> around this size limit, or you can just use less stack space. :> : :Thank you very much! :That explains everything. : :The problem's in my tv set (as we say here) and I'll fix the picture ::) : :--iani Heh heh. I have a feeling that we're going to see more of these sorts of problems crop up (over-extending stacks, making assumptions about compiler optimizations) as more and more people try to do threads programming and fewer and fewer of them have the small-systems background to realize that there are in fact stack and compiler optimization issuesl -Matt Matthew Dillon <dillon@backplane.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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