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Re: [PATCH] allow LinuxThreads to have larger stacks for the mainthread
> This is not usable. Many architectures severely limit the stack size.
> On x86 there is a hard limit of 8MB. The remaining 120MB would be
> unused, or worse, used for other mappings.
Ok, can someone explain to me that hard limit of 8MB on x86? I wasn't
aware of it at all. Is this built into LinuxThreads in some other
place, or is it a kernel limitation? I am aware that many
distributions set the default stack limit to 8MB (and I think that is
good).
The patch could of course also be applied with MAIN_STACK_SIZE_MAX set
to 8MB, a fourfold improvement over the current situation.
Regards,
Wolfram.