If you want this, it's easy enough to allocate your own stack, and write
functions that allocate from it and release the allocation. If you were
writing in C++, you could make releasing the allocation automatic.

I think this illustrates why the kernel developers are taking Rust
seriously.

On Fri, Jul 30, 2021, 4:48 PM Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

> Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult said on Fri, 30 Jul 2021 15:24:07 +0200
>
>
> >In kernel space, we have the golden rule of not doing any larger stack
> >allocations, even not larger fixed sized arrays.
>
> Larger than how much? Surely
>
> bestdistro[12]; strncpy(bestdistro, "Devuan", strlen("Devuan"));
>
> would be OK, right?
>
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