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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: TASK_UNMAPPED_BASE & stack location
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Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> 
> Right ... I was just suggesting changing it by default. Was wondering if
> anyone knew of anything it'd break. Your issue with NULL pointers is
> interesting, but I'm not sure this would really affect that much ... the
> stack is normally tiny in comparison.
> 

Normally, yes, but there are applications which use very large stacks.

	-hpa