Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT

[Warren <ve3wwg@gmail.com>]

Maciej Sobczak expounded in news:6b9abbbd-2d5e-4e80-b353-fc4d1ccd2963
@q23g2000yqd.googlegroups.com:

> On 18 Mar, 18:03, Warren <ve3...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> With the new focus on parallel cores etc., I've often pondered
>> what a future CPU without a stack might look like. Imagine
>> a CPU that somehow in microcode was able to do a fast-malloc
>> of a stack frame
> 
> There is no need to do that in microcode - the compiler decides what
> does it mean to call a subprogram and what does it mean to allocate
> the "frame", so you might simply have a compiler that implements these
> concepts in terms of a dynamically allocated linked list.
> I vaguely remember reading about a C compiler that did exactly that a
> while ago - but I fail to find it in Google due to the noise from
> billions of tutorials with stacks and lists. :-)
> Maciej Sobczak * www.inspirel.com

Were you thinking Cilk (or Cilk++)?  I saw this in passing this
afternoon. One reference indicates a Cilk project existing since
'94 using gcc. Looks like good reading material for this weekend.

Warren