Re: segfault with large-ish array with GNAT

[Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>]

Warren wrote on comp.lang.ada:
> Imagine
> a CPU that somehow in microcode was able to do a fast-malloc
> of a stack frame (as part of a call), linking the new
> frame back to the calling frame. Then you could eliminate
> the need for a "linear virtual stack region" altogether. This
> would allow code to freely fork into many parallel
> threads without the issue of pre-allocating stack [address]
> space to each new thread. When the called procedure executed
> a "return", it would (in microcode) free the current stack
> frame and return to the prior one.  The "call" allocate/free's
> could be constrained to one general "stack heap".

I wonder how that would work with processors that have register
windows specifically to reduce the need for a memory-based stack (i.e.
SPARC, IA64 and maybe others).

--
Ludovic Brenta.