managing stacks

[Neal H. Walfield]

At Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:28:18 +0200,
Norman Feske wrote:
> Regarding the
> stack allocation, I was just suggesting a user-level policy of
> where to place stacks within the processes address space. Just
> for clarity and debugging, it would be nice to have a convention,
> for example: all stack live in the area 0x40000000 to 0x80000000,
> each having a maxumum size of 0x100000.

This sounds like an issue for the threading library and nothing that
needs to be exposed formally.  FWIW, the traditional default stack
size has been 8 MB.