Re: GCC's -fsplit-stack disturbing Mach's vm_allocate

[Samuel Thibault]

Hello,

Thomas Schwinge, le Wed 26 Jun 2013 23:30:03 +0200, a écrit :
> On Sat, 22 Jun 2013 08:15:46 -0700, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
> > Go can work without split stack.  In that case libgo will use much
> > larger stacks for goroutines, to reduce the chance of running out of
> > stack space (see StackMin in libgo/runtime/proc.c).  So the number of
> > simultaneous goroutines that can be run will be limited.  This is
> > usually OK on x86_64 but it does hamper Go programs running on 32-bit
> > x86.
> 
> OK, but that's not the most pressing issue we're having right now.
> Anyway, as it stands, the split-stack code doesn't work on Hurd, so I
> disabled it in r200434 as follows:

Maybe you'd want to re-enable it, now that we have got rid of threadvars :)

Samuel