Re: [Gcl-devel] Segmentaton fault

[Eric Merritt]

--- Camm Maguire <address@hidden> wrote:
> Greetings!  What is happening here is that the C
> stack is overflowing,
> raising a sigsegv, triggering the
> segmentation_catcher handler which
> has rudimentary code reporting C stack overflow
> conditions, but being
> unable to call it as there is no more C stack space.
>  I just tried
> mprotecting the last page of C stack PROT_READ or
> some such --
> mprotect won't work on the stack.  If you know of a
> way to raise the
> sigsegv in advance of being absolutely out of C
> stack space, which
> would allow the error handler to run, I'd be happy
> to consider
> implementing it.


 I am sorry that I don't. I know enough C to get
myself into trouble, but I don't have much experience
with the internals of C and signal handling. Sorry.


        
                
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