[ANNOUNCEMENT] TEST RELEASE: Cygwin 2.1.0-0.1

Ken Brown kbrown@cornell.edu
Fri Jun 26 16:55:00 GMT 2015


Hi Corinna,

On 6/26/2015 11:36 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
> Hi Ken,
>
> On Jun 26 10:33, Ken Brown wrote:
>> On 6/26/2015 10:14 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> On Jun 26 08:02, Ken Brown wrote:
>>>> On 6/26/2015 7:12 AM, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>>> Thank you.  I'll try to test this in the next couple of days.  One hint
>>> and one question:
>>>
>>>> The signal handler:
>>>>
>>>> /* Attempt to recover from SIGSEGV caused by C stack overflow.  */
>>>> static void
>>>> handle_sigsegv (int sig, siginfo_t *siginfo, void *arg)
>>>> {
>>>>    /* Hard GC error may lead to stack overflow caused by
>>>>       too nested calls to mark_object.  No way to survive.  */
>>>>    if (!gc_in_progress)
>>>>      {
>>>>        struct rlimit rlim;
>>>>
>>>>        if (!getrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rlim))
>>>
>>> This getrlimit probably won't work as desired.  I just had a quick look
>>> how this request is handled.  It will return the size of the alternate
>>> stack while running the signal handler, rather than the size of the
>>> initial thread's stack as required by POSIX.  This definitely needs
>>> fixing.
>>>
>>>> 	{
>>>> 	  enum { STACK_DANGER_ZONE = 16 * 1024 };
>>>> 	  char *beg, *end, *addr;
>>>>
>>>> 	  beg = stack_bottom;
>>>> 	  end = stack_bottom + stack_direction * rlim.rlim_cur;
>>>> 	  if (beg > end)
>>>> 	    addr = beg, beg = end, end = addr;
>>>> 	  addr = (char *) siginfo->si_addr;
>>>> 	  /* If we're somewhere on stack and too close to
>>>> 	     one of its boundaries, most likely this is it.  */
>>>> 	  if (beg < addr && addr < end
>>>> 	      && (addr - beg < STACK_DANGER_ZONE
>>>> 		  || end - addr < STACK_DANGER_ZONE))
>>>> 	    siglongjmp (return_to_command_loop, 1);
>>>> 	}
>>>>      }
>>>>
>>>>    /* Otherwise we can't do anything with this.  */
>>>>    deliver_fatal_thread_signal (sig);
>>>> }
>>>>
>>>> The code to set up the signal handler on the alternate stack:
>>>>
>>>> static bool
>>>> init_sigsegv (void)
>>>> {
>>>>    struct sigaction sa;
>>>>    stack_t ss;
>>>>
>>>>    stack_direction = ((char *) &ss < stack_bottom) ? -1 : 1;
>>>>
>>>>    ss.ss_sp = sigsegv_stack;
>>>>    ss.ss_size = sizeof (sigsegv_stack);
>>>                   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>>>
>>> What's that size in bytes?
>>
>> SIGSTKSZ
>
> Thanks.  Another question:  How does emacs compute stack_bottom?

Very near the beginning of main() it does the following:

   char stack_bottom_variable;
[...]
   /* Record (approximately) where the stack begins.  */
   stack_bottom = &stack_bottom_variable;

Ken

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