Re: c-stack: use libsigsegv when possible

[Paul Eggert]

Eric Blake <address@hidden> writes:

> Should I also add lib-ignore to the
> dependencies of c-stack, so that Solaris need not waste space if
> libsigsegv is not used independently of c-stack?

Yes, please.

> In writing the patch, I noticed that it is probably not portable to
> longjmp out of a stack overflow handler - POSIX is explicit that longjmp
> is not async-signal safe, because the stack overflow might have occurred
> in the middle of a library function like malloc; even though you can
> manage to get back to the original stack, you no longer have guarantees
> that malloc will work.  So, we either need to document this in the
> contract of c_stack_action, or we need to add a function in c-stack.h that
> the user must call before attempting longjmp anyway; this wrapper would be
> responsible for calling libsigsegv's sigsegv_leave_handler as needed.
> Preferences?

I think it unlikely that this will be a practical problem, so I'd
just document it.

Thanks for doing the work.