On Tue, Jun 28, 2022 at 10:22 AM adr <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2022, Dan Cross wrote:
> > [snip]
> > Given the name of the function (`_threadmalloc`), I'd guess that this isn't
> > intended for general use, but rather, for the internal consumption of the
> > thread library, where indeed such a large allocation would likely be an
> > error (bear in mind this code was developed on 32-bit machines with RAMs
> > measured in Megabytes, not Gigabytes).
>
> No, it's used also when creating a channel and setting a thread's
> stack size.
You mean by `newthread` and `chancreate`? Those are part of the
thread library. Notice that there are no callers outside of /sys/src/libthread.
- Dan C.
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