From: Jonny Grant <jg@jguk.org>
To: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, Andrew Haley <aph@redhat.com>
Cc: Xi Ruoyao <xry111@mengyan1223.wang>, gcc-help <gcc-help@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Recursive SIGSEGV question
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2019 20:39:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b9df1315-c6d0-b773-7d3d-ba0723858cbc@jguk.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87bm1yho61.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
Hi!
On 25/03/2019 17:14, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Andrew Haley:
>
>> On 3/25/19 2:01 PM, Florian Weimer wrote:
>>> * Xi Ruoyao:
>>>
>>>> On 2019-03-25 13:06 +0000, Jonny Grant wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I built & ran with the Sanitizer, it seems it's also stack overflow
>>>>> within the operator new()
>>>>>
>>>>> I had thoughts GCC would generate code that monitored the stack size and
>>>>> aborted with a clear message when the stack size was exceeded. Looked
>>>>> online, and it doesn't seem to be the case.
>>>>
>>>> Impossible. We can't distinguish "stack overflow" with other segmentation
>>>> faults.
>>>
>>> I think âimpossibleâ is too strong.
>>
>> It is. We do it with stack banging and a few guard pages in the HotSpot JVM.
>> The problem is that recovering well enough to throw an exception requires
>> some quite hairy non-portable code.
>
> Of course it's going to be non-portable. Ideally, this would be
> handled out-of-process: the shell registers itself with the system
> coredump handler, and the handler analyzes the crash and provides
> information back to the shell for display.
>
> It's quite difficult to get there, but it's certainly not impossible.
> We really should have lightweight tracebacks for aborts and the like
> in C/C++ code. Right now, every moderately large piece of software
> tries to write their robust in-process crash handler, with varying
> results.
> .
Could GCC add a simple crash handler? maybe -fcrash-handler
C++ exceptions show a few clues when there is a crash, which is helpful, eg:
// g++-8 -Wall -o cpp cpp.cpp
#include <vector>
int main()
{
std::vector<int> v;
return v.at(0);
}
$ ./cpp
terminate called after throwing an instance of 'std::out_of_range'
what(): vector::_M_range_check: __n (which is 0) >= this->size()
(which is 0)
Aborted
Jonny
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-03-25 20:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-03-19 22:05 Jonny Grant
2019-03-20 4:02 ` Florian Weimer
2019-03-20 8:11 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-25 13:23 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-25 13:27 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-03-25 13:56 ` Florian Weimer
2019-03-25 14:01 ` Xi Ruoyao
2019-03-25 15:47 ` Florian Weimer
2019-03-25 16:10 ` Andrew Haley
2019-03-25 16:13 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-25 16:23 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-03-25 18:51 ` Florian Weimer
2019-03-25 20:39 ` Jonny Grant [this message]
2019-03-26 6:50 ` Xi Ruoyao
2019-03-27 0:29 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-03-27 21:34 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-27 23:43 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-03-27 23:51 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-28 8:26 ` Xi Ruoyao
2019-03-28 11:52 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-03-29 2:24 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-30 17:32 ` Jonny Grant
2023-02-19 21:21 ` Jonny Grant
2023-02-19 21:34 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-28 13:55 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-03-28 14:39 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-28 14:39 ` Jonathan Wakely
2019-03-25 20:28 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-03-25 18:56 ` Segher Boessenkool
2019-03-25 22:05 ` Jonny Grant
2019-03-26 10:20 ` Xi Ruoyao
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