Re: Gnat STORAGE_ERROR

["Björn Persson" <spam-away@nowhere.nil>]

Duncan Sands wrote:
>>From the GNAT user's guide:
> 
> A.6 Linux-Specific Considerations 
>  The default thread library under GNU/Linux has the following disadvantages compared to other native thread libraries: 
> The size of the task's stack is limited to 2 megabytes. 
> The signal model is not POSIX compliant, which means that to send a signal to the process, you need to send the signal to all threads, e.g. by using killpg().

I would *guess* that the user's guide talks about Linuxthreads, not the 
newer NPTL. One would hope that the Native Posix Threading Library is 
Posix-compliant. The stack limit might of course be present in both, or 
it might not.

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