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Re: Fwd: What can a signal handler do with SIGSTKSZ?
On Mon, 14 Jan 2019, Carlos O'Donell wrote:
> If *I* were a developer I might expect as Zach pointed out, that I can call
> every function on the list of callable AS-safe functions, at least once,
> without recursion, and expect them to operate correctly.
>
> A test case for this would therefore be a main, that register a handler
> that exercises *all* functions in the AS-safe list, and then looks for
> stack corruption at each execution.
The POSIX AS-safe list, or the functions that are currently documented as
AS-safe in glibc (an observed property, not necessarily a commitment to an
API)? (strtold uses a fair amount of stack, for example, and is listed as
AS-safe in glibc.)
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