From: vruz <horacio.lopez@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T04:22:23+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum stack depth

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 04:11:18 +0900, Paul Hanchett <paulha@aracnet.com> wrote:
> (Showing my ignorance:) I thought windows apps had an automatically
> expanding stack.

Stealing from:
http://www.cswl.com/whiteppr/white/multithreading.html

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The Birth of a Thread: CreateThread
An inevitable part of a thread is some code to execute. Under Windows
NT, the address of a function is passed as a parameter to CreateThread
to execute in the thread. The thread executes as long as it does not
return from it. The thread can be terminated using TerminateThread.
Each thread runs on a separate stack. To be more precise, each thread
runs on either of two dedicated stacks—the kernel stack or the
application stack—depending on whether system or application code
executes in it, respectively, but the kernel stack is nothing that is
ever visible in any form. Windows NT will dynamically grow the stack
if necessary, but it will never grow it past 1 MB. This is to prevent
infinitely recursive function calls from blowing up your process.
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