Re: Boehm-Demers-Weiser conservative garbage collector and GNAT

[Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen)]

In article <rw2u1ao4rgc.fsf@lbrenta.corp.emc.com>, Ludovic Brenta <ludovic.brenta@insalien.org> writes:
> Kilgallen@SpamCop.net (Larry Kilgallen) writes:
> 
>> The last major program I wrote was designed to minimize the amount
>> of explicit memory allocation (using Ada83).  There were one or two
>> chains of records that had to be cleaned up in between major groups
>> of user commands.
>> 
>> There was a "lot" of stack-based memory used.
> 
> Interesting.  Did you encounter special difficulties designing your
> program with this particular goal in mind?  Like for example
> limitations on the size of the stack, or problems sharing objects
> between threads?

This was not a multi-threaded application, and the primary stack size
is limited only by a general operating system quota that also affects
heap size

	Heap + Stack < Limit