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From: Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
To: jakub@redhat.com
Cc: libc-hacker@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix linuxthreads with pthread_attr_setstack{,addr}
Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2004 17:14:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040430171450.2358.qmail@md.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040429143129.GS5191@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz> (message from Jakub Jelinek on Thu, 29 Apr 2004 16:31:30 +0200)

Hello,

> POSIX says on pthread_join:
> 
> "For instance, after pthread_join() returns, any application-provided stack storage
>  could be reclaimed."

Chapter and verse?  This sounds rather vague, too.

On comp.programming.threads, pthreads architect Dave Butenhof has
claimed repeatedly that POSIX makes _no_ such guarantees, i.e. that
strictly speaking you can _never_ free user-defined stack space..
Eg.:

http://groups.google.de/groups?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=ISO-8859-1&selm=3A797AB3.A57D43E9%40compaq.com

Regards,
Wolfram.

  reply	other threads:[~2004-04-30 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-04-29 16:31 Jakub Jelinek
2004-04-29 16:43 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-04-30 17:14   ` Wolfram Gloger [this message]
2004-04-30 17:33     ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-04-30 18:04       ` Wolfram Gloger
2004-05-01  9:38         ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-03 21:12 ` Ulrich Drepper

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