From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: David Edelsohn <dje@watson.ibm.com>
To: "Earl S. Harris, Jr." <esharris@mitre.org>
Cc: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Catching stack overflow errors 
Date: Fri, 04 Aug 2000 14:04:00 -0000
Message-id: <200008042104.RAA06398@mal-ach.watson.ibm.com>
References: <398B29E0.B1B0D9A5@mitre.org>
X-SW-Source: 2000-08/msg00128.html

>>>>> "Earl S Harris, Jr " writes:

Earl> Is there a machine independent way to catch stack overflow errors?

Earl> When I build a recursive program, I want to check if there is stack
Earl> overflow.
Earl> I have some solutions that work in one architecture, but not another.

	Some members of IBM's Tokyo Research Lab have been investigating a
machine-independent change to GCC that would generate code to check for
stack overflow / corruption / smashing.  They currently are judging
community interest to determine if they should try to contribute this code
to GCC.  They have a research report on an external website, but the HTML
generates a server error at the moment.

David