On Tue, Mar 9, 2021 at 12:27 PM Bruno Haible <br...@clisp.org> wrote: > > Eric Blake wrote: > > I can open a defect against POSIX if we decide that is needed, but want > > some consensus first on whether it is glibc's change that went too far, > > or POSIX's requirements that are too restrictive for what glibc wants to do. > > Thanks for opening the discussion, Eric. > > Here are a couple of questions, to understand the motivation and the possible > alternative solutions to the problem: > > 1) As far as I understand, the issue occurs with certain x86 or x86_64 > processors. > > 1.1) What has been the value of MINSIGSTKSZ on x86 and x86_64 so far?
It is 2048 bytes in glibc 2.32. > 1.2) What value of MINSIGSTKSZ is needed for AVX-512F support? For i686, it is 3628 bytes. For x86-64, it is 3212 bytes. > 1.3) Will the trend to larger MINSIGSTKSZ values continue for Intel > processors? With 8 1K Tile registers, we need another 8K. I can't tell you how big we will need in 10 years. -- H.J.
