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Re: stack overflow

To: Godmar Back <gback at cs dot utah dot edu>
Subject: Re: stack overflow
From: Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>
Date: Mon, 1 Nov 1999 11:13:55 -0800 (PST)
Cc: per at bothner dot com (Per Bothner), java-discuss at sourceware dot cygnus dot com
References: <m2iu3m9hd3.fsf@magnus.bothner.com><199911011904.MAA28414@faith.cs.utah.edu>

Godmar> Thanks, but this is not what I mean.  I'm looking for the code
Godmar> that catches the stack overflow and recovers from it, for
Godmar> instance by throwing a StackOverflowError (in Java).  I would
Godmar> expect such code to live in a run-time library, not
Godmar> necessarily in the compiler (?).

We don't have any code to do this.
I don't know what -fstack-check does, but this isn't it.
I don't know of any concrete plans to implement this, either.
I agree we need it, though.

Tom

References:
- Re: stack overflow
  - From: Per Bothner
- Re: stack overflow
  - From: Godmar Back

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