SafeStack proposal in GCC

[Michael Matz]

Hi,

On Sat, 7 May 2016, Rich Felker wrote:

> > > * sigaltstack and swapcontext are broken too.
> > 
> > We have prototype that supports swapcontext that we're happy to 
> > release, but it clearly requires more work before being ready to merge 
> > upstream.
> 
> The *context APIs are deprecated and I'm not sure they're worth 
> supporting with this. It would be a good excuse to get people to stop 
> using them.

How?  POSIX decided to remove the facilities without any adequate 
replacement (thread aren't).


Ciao,
Michael.