From 5981638372020822181 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: f78e5,fb1a92fa405c930c X-Google-Attributes: gidf78e5,public From: "Dave Abrahams" Subject: Re: nested functions Date: 1999/06/18 Message-ID: <9Upa3.2167$5H.148588@ndnws01.ne.mediaone.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 491090396 X-NNTP-Posting-Host: 24.128.173.110 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Approved: stephen.clamage@sun.com (comp.std.c++) References: <37659D89.565ACF7D@technologist.com> <7k5ncv$n8u$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <376690B6.6231FB13@technologist.com> <376761DB.603FE6F1@physik.tu-muenchen.de> <37681965.87E5D3D0@technologist.com> <7kap79$6te$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> <170619991219470383%lisa_lippincott@advisories.com> <7kcjai$l9u$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Complaints-To: abuse@rr.com X-Trace: ndnws01.ne.mediaone.net 929704581 24.128.173.110 (Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:16:21 EDT) Organization: Road Runner Mime-Version: 1.0 NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 18 Jun 1999 07:16:21 EDT Newsgroups: comp.std.c++ Originator: clamage@taumet In article <7kcjai$l9u$1@mulga.cs.mu.OZ.AU> , fjh@cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) wrote: > In addition, on implementations with appropriate virtual memory support, > you can create an unbounded size trampoline stack Even virtual memory is bounded, and people bump up against these bounds in real life. Often the effective size of the VM space is in fact bounded by the amount of real memory underlying it ;) I do wish we all (especially OS designers) could keep that in mind! -Dave [ comp.std.c++ is moderated. To submit articles, try just posting with ] [ your news-reader. If that fails, use mailto:std-c++@ncar.ucar.edu ] [ --- Please see the FAQ before posting. --- ] [ FAQ: http://reality.sgi.com/austern_mti/std-c++/faq.html ]