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you understand that stack allocation can OOM too?

• craftkiller 10mo ago
  Can C gracefully recover from running out of stack space?
  • fulafel 10mo ago
    Depends on your definition of graceful but the C standard doesn't preclude handling it and there's POSIX interfaces such as sigaltstack / sigsetjmp etc that fit and indeed some code like language runtimes use this to react to stack exhaustion (having first set up guard pages etc).
    • kibwen 10mo ago
      Or in short: no, C is no better than Rust at gracefully recovering from stack overflow, either in theory or in practice.
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