How are stacks of non-JavaThreads guarded?

[Thomas Stüfe]

Hi Andrew,

On Sat, Nov 28, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Andrew Haley <aph at redhat.com> wrote:

> On 28/11/15 07:55, Thomas Stüfe wrote:
> > So, in JavaThread we establish stack guards (red and yellow zones). But I
> > do not find anything similar for non JavaThread threads, e.g. VmThread?
>
> There isn't, and I don't think it's possible because there is no
> reasonably portable way to recover from a stack overflow in C++.
>
>
thanks for clarifying.

But I don't even want to recover; a hard-and-fast crash is better than
running over whatever happens to be below the VmThread stack. Well,
something to mull over.

Regards, Thomas



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