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From: "Gisle Vanem" <giva AT bgnett DOT no>
To: <djgpp-workers AT delorie DOT com>
References: <Pine DOT OSF DOT 4 DOT 51 DOT 0302051407240 DOT 1814 AT sirppi DOT helsinki DOT fi>
Subject: Re: Checking for stack overflow
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 14:23:03 +0100
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"Esa A E Peuha" <peuha AT cc DOT helsinki DOT fi> said:

> Gcc apparently allows to define freely what instructions are used to
> allocate space from the stack.  Since we have a fixed stack size, it
> would be good to check esp againt the stack limit every time it's
> changed. 

Not by default IMHO (although many compiler do it by default). It would 
break lots of code that sets stack manually to some fixed block. 

But if it's easy to implement I'm all for it (option "-fcheck-stack" and accompanying
"#pragma check_stack .. " and  "__attribute__(..)").

Gisle V.

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