Re: 4k stacks in 2.6

Jörn Engel
2004-05-27T15:23:12Z

On Fri, 28 May 2004 01:08:02 +1000, Keith Owens wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2004 16:59:35 +0200,
> =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:
> >
> >Plus the script is wrong sometimes. I have had trouble with sizes
> >around 4G or 2G, and never found the time to really figure out what's
> >going on. Might be an alloca thing that got misparsed somehow.
>
> Some code results in negative adjustments to the stack size on exit,
> which look like 4G sizes. My script checks for those and ignores them.
> /^[89a-f].......$/d;

Ok, looks as if only my script is wrong. Do you know what exactly
causes such a negative adjustment?

Jörn

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