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-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 103376,984d3d7860d7c8c
X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public
Path: 
 g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!news.glorb.com!newsrout1.ntli.net!news-in.ntli.net!colt.net!kibo.news.demon.net!news.demon.co.uk!demon!not-for-mail
From: Simon Wright <simon@pushface.org>
Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada
Subject: Re: Where are returned values stored?
Date: 05 Jun 2004 18:13:21 +0100
Organization: Pushface
Sender: simon@smaug.pushface.org
Message-ID: <x7vise6szbi.fsf@smaug.pushface.org>
References: <75s9b0pgo91ctvlm5op2rcql82t9ip4me2@4ax.com>
 <mailman.10.1085650792.391.comp.lang.ada@ada-france.org>
 <1dptc.49822$tb4.1731604@news20.bellglobal.com>
 <2hv1auFhi91aU1@uni-berlin.de> <uZFuc.6543$Hn.267724@news20.bellglobal.com>
 <AN-dnWcaPPYezyDdRVn-gg@comcast.com>
 <AWjvc.22009$Hn.791710@news20.bellglobal.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pogner.demon.co.uk
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Trace: news.demon.co.uk 1086455886 6407 62.49.19.209 (5 Jun 2004 17:18:06
 GMT)
X-Complaints-To: abuse@demon.net
NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2004 17:18:06 +0000 (UTC)
User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1
Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:1129
Date: 2004-06-05T18:13:21+01:00
List-Id: <comp.lang.ada>

"Warren W. Gay VE3WWG" <ve3wwg@cogeco.ca> writes:

> Anyway, I tend to live in the POSIX world, and so for
> me at least, more stacks means carving up more of the
> precious 2GB address space on 32 bit platforms. Once
> everyone moves to 64 bit processors, then this is less
> of a problem.

2GB! I wish! These stacks need to come out of physical RAM (VxWorks
5.5), you don't get 2 GB on a VME single-board computer (well, perhaps
tomorrow).

-- 
Simon Wright                               100% Ada, no bugs.