Subj : Re: stack information / stack overflow
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : doug
Date : Tue Mar 22 2005 08:36 pm

A neat way to handle stack overflow is to set up a signal handler to catch 
the signal (i can't remember offhand if you get a BUS or an ABORT or a SEGV 
or what), and have it run on an alternate stack.

From memory, you alloc some memory, and supply this and the SA_ONSTACK flag 
when setting the signal handler.

Hope that helps.

"Michael Schmidt" <Michael.Schmidt@NOSPAMsoftwareag.com> wrote in message 
news:dPQ%d.319$f5.11271@newsread.de.ignite.net...
> Is there a portable way to retrieve information about a thread's stack 
> size
> and start address at runtime ?
>
> How can I handle a stack overflow in a thread ?
>
> Michael
>
>

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