WebAssembly / WebAssembly/wasi-sdk
Stack growing support
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Description
(perhaps this issue is better opened on the main LLVM repo)
Is it possible to support unbounded/growing stacks?
Some code makes heavy use of recursion, and having a fixed stack size is quite limiting. I had originally thought that the multiple memories proposal would help there, but that would introduce different types of pointers, which sounds like a terrible idea :-)
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by determining whether growing or unbounded stacks are supported by WebAssembly or require changes in LLVM, as the issue suggests this may belong in the main LLVM repository. Review the multiple memories proposal and its pointer implications before defining the affected toolchain components and a concrete, testable outcome.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- wasm
- Domain
- compilers
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 20/100