Call stack mechanism

Walter Bright newshound1 at digitalmars.com
Fri Aug 14 13:25:59 PDT 2009


Joshua Moore-Oliva wrote:
> I am doing research on multi-threaded call stack mechanisms, and in
> addition to academic papers, I am surveying what mechanisms existing
> languages use. Does D use a mechanism other than the standard
> C-pthread style "one stack is allocated on thread creation for each
> thread, and if that space is exhausted it is considered an error
> without recovery"? If so, could you detail your call stack mechanism?

That's right. It's a layer over the C thread creation mechanism.



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