alloca and reliable stack-overflow detection in glibc functions

Billy O'Connor billyoc@gnuyork.org
Tue Feb 3 18:48:00 GMT 2004


Paul Eggert <eggert@CS.UCLA.EDU> writes:

> #include <stdio.h>
> #include <stdlib.h>
> int main (void) { alloca(0x7fead000); printf("Hello world\n"); }

This doesn't segfault with glibc-2.3.2.

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Billy O'Connor



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