Re: gnulib and threaded execution

[Jim Meyering]

Hi Bruno,

Bruno Haible wrote:
> You're just scratching the surface. More importantly, the 'alloca'
> module cannot be used _at_all_ in code meant to be used in multiple
> threads.
>   1. because the stack size for threads is often smaller than
>      the stack size of the main thread. (16 KB vs. 8 MB, or so.)
>      You have to use module 'safe-alloca' instead.
>   2. because the alloca.c code assumes that there is a "stack
>      direction". This is not the case any more with GCC's new
>      "split stacks" <http://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/SplitStacks>.

Is #2 really relevant?
alloca.c is compiled with gcc only for 1.x versions.