Re: [Openexr-devel] OpenEXR from shared libs.

[Nikolaj Thygesen]

I wonder if other stack size issues exist?? When I do these two lines, I 
get a crash:

Header head;
head.insert("comments", StringAttribute("Crash"));

I haven't investigated this, but it seg-fault's just like with the 
AutoArray issue.

   br - N :o)

Florian Kainz wrote:
> I think Paul is right; we added the AutoArray to IlmImf before
> we added threading.  If I remember correctly, the AutoArray was
> introduced specifically to address the small stack size on OS X.
> Maybe this has changed, and the AutoArray is no longer necessary
> on newer systems.
>
> The IlmImf library should set the stack size only for threads it
> creates; it should not interfere with the stack size for application
> threads.  (Is it even possible for a thread to change its own stack
> size?)
>
> This brings up a disadvantage of changing the stack size: a thread
> in a multithreaded application may use the small default stack size
> and then call the IlmImf library in single-threaded mode (with the
> number of threads set to 0).  In this case the AutoArrays will end
> up on the application thread's small stack and cause a segfault.
>
> Maybe it is better to use the heap-based AutoArray on systems where
> threads have a small default stack size.
>
> Florian
>
> darby johnston wrote:
> > --- Paul Schneider <address@hidden> wrote:
> >   
> > > But don't we want to keep the AutoArray around for
> > > single-threaded code
> >
> > I believe the default stack size for processes is much
> > larger than threads, so it shouldn't be an issue.
> >
> > For instance, according to this the default stack size
> > in OSX is 8MB, but for pthreads is only 512KB:
> >
> > http://developer.apple.com/qa/qa2005/qa1419.html
> >
> > > so that the EXR library doesn't change the
> > > stack size of the  thread that calls it?
> >
> > The change will be specific to the pthreads stuff, so
> > if you disable threading it won't affect anything.
> >
> > -- Florian Kainz <address@hidden> wrote:
> >
> > > darby johnston wrote:
> > > > Also, could the ifdef for darwin in ImfAutoArray.h
> > > be
> > > > removed with this change?
> > > I don't know.  Have you tried it?
> >
> > Unfortunately I don't have access to a mac, but the
> > above document seems to support it.
> >
> >
> > Darby
> >
> >
> >
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