Segmented stack

[Brad Anderson via Digitalmars-d]

On Thursday, 16 October 2014 at 19:46:42 UTC, Shucai wrote:
> I am doing research on segmented stack mechanisms, and in 
> addition to academic papers, I am surveying whether segmented 
> stack mechanism is still useful on 64-bit machines. On 64 bit 
> machines, why  they don’t just use a big enough stack, for 
> example, 1GB or even larger?  Are segmented stacks only useful 
> for 32 bit machines?  Are there other reasons for segmented 
> stacks on 64 bit machines?
>
> Any response is appreciated, thanks, Shucai

You might want to try asking the Go and Rust mailing lists since 
they have a lot of experience with segmented stacks.

Rust abandoned them for a few reasons you can read about here[1]. 
The announcement specifically mentions they believe the MMU can 
take care of the stack on 64-bits.

1. 
https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/rust-dev/2013-November/006314.html