Re: Help tracking down libpth problem on ia64?
On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:06 pm, David Mosberger wrote:
> >>>>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:58:27 -0800, Richard Harke
> >>>>> <rharke@earthlink.net> said:
>
> Richard> Then if the user goes off the end of the stack, there is a
> Richard> page fault and the system has the possiblity to extend the
> Richard> stack. On the ia64, this hardly seems feasible.
>
> Just initialize ar.bsp==sp. The stacks will then grow "outwards".
> You'll need two guard areas, but that's the extent of it.
>
> --david
But then why was the current scheme chosen for linix-ia64?
Richard
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