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RE: Thread error with large buffer
- To: "Trenton D. Adams" <tadams at extremeeng dot com>
- Subject: RE: [ECOS] Thread error with large buffer
- From: Gary Thomas <gthomas at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:15:57 -0600 (MDT)
- Cc: eCos mailing list <ecos-discuss at sources dot redhat dot com>
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
On 20-Jul-2001 Trenton D. Adams wrote:
> > why not just make it static? also there are routines you can use to
> > check the stack size and usage for a given thread. also you can
> adjust
> > the stack size for main (the default in a kernel i just glanced at
> is
> > 8k). also you can enable stack overflow checking.
> >
> > -Dan
> >
>
> This is a TEST program, I don't think it's really necessary to worry
> about silly things like where stuff resides in memory, whether it's on
> the stack or on the heap.
Ah, but this is an embedded system, where you _do_ have to worry about
such things as "is my stack big enough for the buffer I just created?",
even for "test" programs.