Re: About stack size

From: Alwyn (dt015a1979_at_mac.com.invalid)
Date: 09/10/04 

Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2004 10:52:07 +0100

In article <bc2bfdd5.0409100054.73071cf5@posting.google.com>, Niklas
Borson <niklasb@microsoft.com> wrote:

> Alwyn <dt015a1979@mac.com.invalid> wrote in message
> news:<100920040103254378%dt015a1979@mac.com.invalid>...
>
> > It depends on the platform, but most of them are like this:
> > <http://lambda.uta.edu/cse5317/fall02/notes/node30.html>
>
> I doubt "most" of them are like that any more. Consider a process
> with multiple threads, all sharing the same address space. Each
> thread will typically have its own stack.

Yes, each thread of a process will need its own stack. But AFAIK, most
Unix processes are still single-threaded.

> (Actually, under Windows
> there are two stacks for each thread, IIRC, one for user mode and
> one for kernel mode.)

I wasn't aware Windows did that. You learn something every day.

Alwyn

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