Call stack mechanism

[Brad Roberts]

On Fri, 14 Aug 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?
> 
> Thanks, Joshua Moore-Oliva 

Answering carefully, neither C, C++ nor D define how threads behave.  
Both C++ and D intend to but even there I don't think they define the 
specifics of stack usage but rather leave that to the ABI to define.

However, practically speaking.. yes, D follows in the footsteps of C and 
defers that to the pthread libraries for the most part.  See the other 
responses on the thread.

Later,
Brad