This routine uses the value specified in the stackaddr argument
to set the stack address attribute of the thread attributes
object specified in the attr argument.
When creating a thread, use a thread attributes object to specify
nondefault values for thread attributes. The stack address
attribute of a thread attributes object points to the origin
of the stack for a new thread.
The default value for the stack address attribute of an
initialized thread attributes object is NULL.
NOTE
Correct use of this routine depends upon details of the
target platform's stack architecture. Thus, this routine
cannot be used in a portable manner.
The size of the stack must be at least PTHREAD_STACK_MIN
bytes (see the pthread.h header file). However, because the
Threads Library must use a portion of this stack memory to
begin thread execution and to maintain thread state, your
program's "user thread code" cannot rely on using all of the
stack memory allocated.
For your program to calculate a value for the stackaddr
attribute, note that:
o Your program must allocate the memory that will be used for
the new thread's stack.
o On Tru64 UNIX, to create a new thread using a thread
attributes object, the stackaddr attribute must be an address
that points to the high-memory end of the memory region
allocated for the stack. This address must point to the
highest even-boundary quadword in the allocated memory region.
Also note that:
o If you use the pthread_attr_setstackaddr() routine to set a
thread attributes object's stack address attribute and use
that attributes object to create a new thread, the Threads
Library ignores the attributes object's guardsize attribute
and provides no thread stack guard area or overflow warning
area for the new thread.
o If you use the same thread attributes object to create more
than one thread and each created thread uses a nondefault
stack address, you must use the pthread_attr_setstackaddr()
routine to set a unique stack address attribute value for each
new thread created using that attributes object.