On Thursday 15 January 2004 05:06 pm, David Mosberger wrote: > >>>>> On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 17:58:27 -0800, Richard Harke > >>>>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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
