Re: [q-lang-users] Bug? New 'where' syntax

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> Chicken has a small C program run at configuration time that figures
> out which way the C stack grows.  Then it's just a matter of preserving
> the address of a local variable defined in main() in a global variable,
> then adding or subtracting the maximum stack size (defined at config
> time also; Chicken defaults to 128K) to it, and then occasionally
> comparing the content of that variable with the address of some local
> variable.

Thanks, John, for the info, that sounds like it might just work! At
least in threads under complete control of the interpreter. Otherwise,
if eval() is called from a thread in a user program, it will be hard to
predict the stack size, though.

Albert

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