Re: Lua+Coco on Tiny Devices

[James Snyder <jbsnyder@...>]

On Apr 14, 2009, at 12:07 PM, Jerome Vuarand wrote:

> AFAIK the stack has to be a single block of memory. So to have several
> independently growing C stacks you need an MMU (to fragment the stack
> while keeping it solid in terms of address space), and you will only
> be able to do it on a page-by-page basis. But I guess most of your
> embedded targets don't provide an MMU.


Some of them do, but it's not guaranteed.  Also, others will sometimes  
provide some of the functionality of an MMU like memory protection,  
but I think the idea is generally to avoid adding anything to the core  
that would require platform-specific functionality.

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