From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:32:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:32:01 -0400 Received: from motgate3.mot.com ([144.189.100.103]:9648 "EHLO motgate3.mot.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 11 Sep 2001 06:31:44 -0400 Message-Id: <3B9DE81B.EA680E13@crm.mot.com> Date: Tue, 11 Sep 2001 12:31:55 +0200 From: Emmanuel Varagnat Reply-To: Emmanuel Varagnat-AEV010 Organization: Centre de Recherche de Motorola - Paris X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Erik Mouw Cc: Raghava Raju , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Kernel stack.... In-Reply-To: <20010910214741.19309.qmail@web20008.mail.yahoo.com> <20010910235725.C797@arthur.ubicom.tudelft.nl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Erik Mouw wrote: > > I think you got a wrong understanding of the stack. The stack has no > separate bss, data, and text sections, it's just a stack of function > arguments, local variables, and return addresses. > > Accessing the stack works automatically: call a function, and the > function paramaters and the return address are pushed on the stack. Yes but there is one stack per processor ? And what about its maximum size ? Is it dynamical ? -Manu