Subject: Re: spurious segfault (libpthread problem)
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@zoulas.com>
From: Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com>
List: current-users
Date: 05/26/2003 16:47:17
christos@zoulas.com (Christos Zoulas) writes:

> In article <mtu1xylbhlc.fsf@contents-vnder-pressvre.mit.edu>,
> Nathan J. Williams <nathanw@wasabisystems.com> wrote:
> >Lennart Augustsson <lennart@augustsson.net> writes:
> >
> >> I can repeat that.  Whatever the cause is (not enough stack with threads?),
> >> it is certainly a(nother) pthread bug.
> >
> >When you link in libpthread, the main thread's stack is limited to
> >256k, due to the way threads are identified at runtime.
> 
> And this hack needs to go soon because it will cause ABI changes.

Could you elaborate on that? What ABIs are affected?

        - Nathan