On 28/03/12 08:41, Oliver Kowalke wrote: > Hello, > > I'd like to use split stacks for my coroutine implementation. > I found a website from Ian describing how split stack could be implemented in gcc but not how to use it in an application. > > I assume I have to apply the command line option -fsplit-stack and gcc must be compiled with --enable-gold (as described in Ians blog). > Are some macros defined I can use in the code in order to detect that split stacks are available? > > I assume I've to call a special function similiar to malloc()/calloc() in order to get a new split stack?! > > regards, > Oliver I thought split stacks were just the name of the feature of having a non-necessarily contiguous stack which gets allocated on demand. You will obviously need some kind of malloc() to create a stack for you, but as the compiler will need to know about it, probably not anyone works. There may be some kind of stack_alloc(), I'd take a look at how does pthread_create() make its stack. Good luck
