For Windows, the method of finding stack limit is reportedly flaky,
and might not work as desired, as documented in
https://joeduffyblog.com/2006/07/15/checking-for-sufficient-stack-space
"Unfortunately, the StackLimit is only updated as you actually touch pages on
the stack, and thus it’s not a reliable way to find out how much
uncommitted stack is left."
Thus, Windows specific code was removed. It might be added, if we find out
that we need it, so far there was no need.
Also AIX, the code based on HAVE_PTHREAD_GETATTR_NP was found not to work,
(produce false positives of stack overrun), thus the traditional
fallback code is used.
Also
- removed repetitive fallback code
- fixed non-portable void pointer arithmethics (GCC-ism)
- took into account that pthread_attr_getstack() can fail,
- fixed the code for (less common) STACK_DIRECTION > 0.
- removed confusing/wrong comments about what "stack base address" means
Single Unix Spec, AIX documentation make it clear what that is.