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Article #1220Re: Stack space for threads
From: Richard.Draves
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 05:28
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 1989 05:28
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Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.mach: 14-Dec-89 Stack space for threads Ian Dall@augean.OZ (1032) How is automatic variable space handled for threads? The Mach kernel doesn't have any policy for allocating stacks. The guy who initializes a thread should allocate a stack and set the thread's stack register appropriately. The C-Threads library gives a new thread a fixed-size region of zero-fill memory for its stack. It doesn't provide a fork primitive for threads. Rich
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