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Re: Default Stack Size 0??


On Windows a stack size of "0" means the size is inherited from the parent
thread.

On Tue, October 6, 2009 6:37 pm, Siva Chandra wrote:
> Hi,
>
> You can consider me to be a newbie to pthreads-win32. I downloaded and
> am using pthreads-2.8.0 static library and dll binaries with MinGW. I
> find the default stack size to be zero. Consider the code snippet
> below:
>
>     pthread_attr_t attr;
>     pthread_attr_init(&attr);
>
>     size_t defStackSize;
>     pthread_attr_getstacksize(&attr, &defStackSize);
>
>     cout << "Default stack size = " << defStackSize << endl;
>
> The above code prints 0! Does this mean that I cannot use the default
> attributes in most but the simplest of my application??
>
> Thanks and regards,
> Siva Chandra

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