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>In many embedded systems the various threads are allocated statically,
created during initialization, and never need to terminate. This
avoids any need for dynamic memory allocation or other resource
management facilities. However if a given application does have a
requirement that some threads be created dynamically, must terminate,
and their resources such as the stack be reclaimed, then the kernel
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