FW: questions about threads

I am resending the attached in hopes of getting an answer from someone who
uses ACTIVATE and KILL…

Apologies for the repeat note, and thanks!

- Roger

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From: Dr. Roger Dube [mailto:rogerdube_at_dathq.com]
Sent: Friday, August 04, 2006 10:50 AM
To: 'sftalk_at_forth.com'
Subject: questions about threads

We are using threads for specific subtasks in some code, and we have some
questions.

1. What is the significance of the 4096 B TCB space allocated to a
thread? How would we know when we need to make it bigger?
2. ACTIVATE returns something to the stack, but the book does not say
it should – what is the significance of this value? How do we know if the
thread has been started successfully?
3. How do we pass a value to a thread without using a global variable?
4. When we KILL a thread, we get something back on the stack, even
though the documentation does not say that… can someone tell us the
significance of that information?

Thanks!

- Roger

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