Re: host support for darwin9

[Geoffrey Keating <geoffk at apple dot com>]

On 02/06/2006, at 7:45 PM, Shantonu Sen wrote:

> I noticed that the host-darwin.c is for PPC Darwin only. It looks  
> like there is no corresponding Intel Darwin host file, which makes  
> my question why there is an architecture-specific host file for PPC  
> at all. It looks like this is to handle running out of stack space  
> and printing a helpful hint. Is this still necessary? Empirically,  
> modern version of Mac OS X  have an 8MB stack limit, and I've never  
> experienced this problem myself. It seems like you can improve  
> portability for all supported versions of Darwin by removing rs6000/ 
> host-darwin.c completely.

10.3 and higher have the 8Mb stack limit, before that it was 512k.  I  
didn't want to remove the feature from 4.2, but certainly for 4.3 it  
seems reasonable.

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