Guido: > Do you know if setting the stack limit actually allocates that much > memory for the stack in the process in Mac OSX, or does it only > reserve VM space (like on traditional Unix)? Strictly speaking, in traditional Unix it doesn't do either, it just sets a limit on how big the stack can grow. Actually allocating stack pages is done on demand. I expect this is what MacOSX does. Greg Ewing, Computer Science Dept, +--------------------------------------+ University of Canterbury, | A citizen of NewZealandCorp, a | Christchurch, New Zealand | wholly-owned subsidiary of USA Inc. | greg@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz +--------------------------------------+
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