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Linux clone, pthreads, and os code commonly look at stack boundaries
by vyodaiken 5y ago
Linux clone, pthreads, and os code commonly look at stack boundaries
- gpderetta 5y agoNot sure what you are referring to with stack boundaries. Of course the ABI imposes some minimal requirements at ABI visible points, but these days you can't even rely on the existence of frame pointers to traverse the stack and you have to use the DWARF unwind machinery. And the content of the stack frame itself is completely unspecified of course.
- vyodaiken 5y agoSo I create a thread with a custom stack which is an allocated buffer. At the top, I write a sequence of bytes in some order. Then I periodically read the top of the stack to see if the stack is getting close to overflow. Meanwhile, the thread code is also addressing the same store.