On Wed, Jul 10, 2002 at 06:49:06PM -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote: > Yes, this is an issue for systems with a chunked stack. As far as I > know that only applies to the various ARM OSes, and for those we'll > have to have some different system specific code to deal with the > stack. (Which is fine)
Sorry, I wasn't clear in my previous reply to your private message. ARM Linux doesn't use a chunked stack. It's contiguous, and (for example) the Bohem garbage collector does work on it. I would expect NetBSD ARM doesn't either. (There is a FreeBSD port to StrongARM, but its mailing list is very very quiet). So I don't think those two will pose undue problems. Part of my confusion w.r.t. giving the useful answer earlier is that I am aware that the guy doing the ARM linux port said that unlike x86 there is some fun on ARM doing a kernel oops backtrace. If I remember correctly (which I may not) this- because there are lots of CPU registers, it is quite likely that some contain addresses of things. Hence you can't assume that the only things that get stacked that look like addresses are from program counters and suchlike. Nicholas Clark
