Hi Rand,
> > the user stack, there should be sufficient space. As I said, we have 1
> > MB per stack frame, and this can be easily extended with the 'stack'
> > function.
>
> The hardware (CPU) will write at least two words (instruction pointer
> and CPU status register, and maybe more) onto the
Hi Alex,
On May 21, 2013, at 7:02 AM, Alexander Burger wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:56:52AM +0200, Rand Dow wrote:
>> Each co-routine should have it's own separate stack. Best practices with
>> stack management today have a sufficiently large stack that grows and then
>> terminates in unm
Hi Rand,
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 05:56:52AM +0200, Rand Dow wrote:
> Each co-routine should have it's own separate stack. Best practices with
> stack management today have a sufficiently large stack that grows and then
> terminates in unmapped memory. If it is attempted to grow the stack too
OK.
Hi Jorge,
> I can only say that under AmigaOS it would certainly be a no-no:
>
> http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Exec_Tasks#Task_Exceptions
> ...
> http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Exec_Tasks#Task_Stack
No. From what I read there, I believe that they do it the same way I do.
They talk about
I won't try to "point" to documentation
Each co-routine should have it's own separate stack. Best practices with
stack management today have a sufficiently large stack that grows and then
terminates in unmapped memory. If it is attempted to grow the stack too
much, then the program gets a memor
Wow, I just have to comment this. Amiga + picolisp in the same post = awesome.
/me crawls back under rock
On May 20, 2013 at 11:13 PM "Jorge Acereda Maciá" wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I can only say that under AmigaOS it would certainly be a no-no:
>
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Hi,
I can only say that under AmigaOS it would certainly be a no-no:
http://wiki.amigaos.net/index.php/Exec_Tasks#Task_Exceptions
"When an exception occurs, Exec stops executing the tasks normal code and jumps
immediately into the exception routine, no matter what the task was doing. The
excep
Hi all,
since nearly three years PicoLisp supports coroutines (64-bit version).
Now suddenly it occurred to me that the way I implemented them might be
illegal.
The problem is how individual stacks for the coroutines are allocated. I
do this by reserving space on the stack (by decrementing the st
