Re: Catching stack overflow errors

["Earl S. Harris, Jr." <esharris@mitre.org>]

David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
> >>>>> "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

I think this is important if the following conditions hold.

1. A programmer wants to use non tail recursion in his/her C++ program.
2. He/she doesn't want the program to crash inelegantly.

Earl Harris Jr.

> to GCC.  They have a research report on an external website, but the HTML
> generates a server error at the moment.
> 
> David