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Re: Fixed size of thread stacks in the nptl pthread implementation
On 02/06/2012 09:48 AM, Roland McGrath wrote:
> I don't see why automatic growing behavior is a good or safe idea at all.
Indeed, the single largest problem with growing stacks is the
reservation of the VM space.
Which of course led Google to invent the split-stack feature
in gcc, allowing the stack to grow a couple of pages at a time.
r~