stack size limit on ppc/ppc64

Alan Modra amodra at bigpond.net.au
Thu Nov 6 00:05:53 EST 2003


On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 01:09:07PM +0100, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> That is if you are assuming one of the current ABIs;

Of course.  I thought the idea was to distinguish stack frame allocation
from other wild pointer writes.

> It's not the kernel's job to enforce an ABI.

There are a lot of things that a binary file needs to get right
according to the ABI before it will run.  Try running stuff from
/dev/mouse.  :)

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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre

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