From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,2a0aa2b1c348fd6a X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!newspeer2.se.telia.net!se.telia.net!masternews.telia.net.!newsb.telia.net.POSTED!not-for-mail From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Bj=F6rn_Persson?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2-1.3.3 (X11/20050513) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Gnat STORAGE_ERROR References: <42943CED.3090408@mailinator.com> <42944DD9.1020000@mailinator.com> <42946CA1.5070405@mailinator.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Message-ID: Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 19:32:52 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 217.209.116.179 X-Complaints-To: abuse@telia.com X-Trace: newsb.telia.net 1117135972 217.209.116.179 (Thu, 26 May 2005 21:32:52 CEST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 21:32:52 CEST Organization: Telia Internet Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:11172 Date: 2005-05-26T19:32:52+00:00 List-Id: 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. -- Bj�rn Persson PGP key A88682FD omb jor ers @sv ge. r o.b n.p son eri nu