[Python-Dev] Mac OSX issues

[Greg Ewing]

Guido:

> Do you know if setting the stack limit actually allocates that much
> memory for the stack in the process in Mac OSX, or does it only
> reserve VM space (like on traditional Unix)?

Strictly speaking, in traditional Unix it doesn't do either,
it just sets a limit on how big the stack can grow. Actually
allocating stack pages is done on demand.

I expect this is what MacOSX does.

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