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On 3/11/2011 7:22 AM, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 04:33:56AM -0800, Daniel Colascione wrote:
>> On 2/17/11 2:27 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> There's no way
>>> to start a process and tell the Windows loader where you want the stack.
>>
>> True, but there's also no requirement to use the stack provided by the
>> loader.  Why not always allocate a separate stack and switch to it early
>> in initialization?
>
> Taking control of the stack allocation doesn't mean that you will
> magically be able to allocate space in the same address range in a
> forked process.

What about using a large area of BSS as "stack"?

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