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author Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
date Thu, 05 Jun 2003 17:49:22 +0000
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1 We have so far failed to find a good way to determine the stack base.
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2 It is highly recommended that GC_stackbottom be set explicitly on program
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3 startup. The supplied value sometimes causes failure under AIX 4.1, though
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4 it appears to work under 3.X. HEURISTIC2 seems to work under 4.1, but
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5 involves a substantial performance penalty, and will fail if there is
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6 no limit on stack size.
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8 There is no thread support. (I assume recent versions of AIX provide
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9 pthreads? I no longer have access to a machine ...)