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
