Can I create a Thread with its stack at a specific address?

Question

I am experimenting a little and wondered whether it would be possible to create a thread with its stack at a specific address which I would supply, or at least let thread stacks only spawn within some (huge) virtual memory region I can specify.

The reason I am interested in this is that I'd like to copy the whole stack over to a remote process at some point and need pointers to stay intact, and for thread stacks to not collide.

It might not be the best/safest way of doing that, I know, but it's just a little hobby project. If you know how to do this on Linux, I'm interested in that too.

Answer 1

Just compiling what the comments said.

• For windows, the answer is no
• For Unix (posix), the answer is pthread_attr_setstack . (Also see the above link)