On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On Wed, Mar 29, 2000 at 07:47:49PM -0600, Jesse Pollard wrote:
>> >
>> >Stack "allocation". No error code available.
>>
>> This is the one place where a stack warning signal would be usefull - when
>> the last page of stack is entered, a signal can be sent, and handled.
>
>"sigaltstack" can be used to deal with most of this. Just arrange for
>stack overflow to deliver a SIGSEGV or SIGBUS onto the alternate
>stack.
The only reason to use the last stack page as a guard would be to avoid
having to allocate another page before knowing if one is available.
I just thought it would be simpler that way.
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