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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, Emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Crash recovery strategies
Date: Mon, 04 Jan 2016 17:33:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834met8ilw.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5689A6DE.2080709@dancol.org> (message from Daniel Colascione on Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:55:26 -0800)

> From: Daniel Colascione <dancol@dancol.org>
> Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2016 14:55:26 -0800
> 
> The code that bothers me is the code that longjmps *out* of the sigsegv
> handler that catches stack overflow. The handler being there is fine.
> Under my proposed scheme, we won't longjmp out of the handler unless the
> user tells us to do that.

You won't be able to do anything except call printf, without jumping
out of the handler.  The stack space left after stack overflow is too
small for anything fancier.  You will almost certainly crash, that's
all.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-01-04 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 177+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-11-25 18:39 Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-25 18:50 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-25 19:24   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-26 21:29 ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-27  7:35   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-11-27 19:19     ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-28 10:58       ` Philipp Stephani
2015-11-28 12:10         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-19 21:03         ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-19 22:57           ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 15:47             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 18:34               ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 19:11                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 21:40                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21  3:33                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 11:00                       ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21 11:21                         ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-21 11:34                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21 15:46                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 18:15                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-21 18:28                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-21 19:00                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 20:19                                 ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-21 19:04                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22  4:09                               ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  4:38                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22  4:48                                   ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  4:52                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22  6:09                                       ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  6:14                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22  6:33                                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  6:35                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22  6:44                                               ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22  6:53                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22 16:13                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:12                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 17:26                                             ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-22 17:51                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:03                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:39                                       ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-22 17:46                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 23:28                                           ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-23 16:10                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 16:20                                               ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-23 16:46                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 17:09                                                 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-23 17:18                                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24  2:51                                                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-24  3:11                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24 16:10                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 17:04                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24 17:17                                                           ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 14:27                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 15:46                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 15:49                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 16:40                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 16:50                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 17:20                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 16:31                                                               ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 16:48                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 18:07                                                                   ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 18:22                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 21:02                                                                       ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 21:12                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:11                                                                           ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 23:22                                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:29                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  1:05                                                                               ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-04  1:07                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 15:38                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:40                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:07                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 20:32                                                                                     ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 20:34                                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 20:35                                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 22:06                                                                                           ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 15:24                                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:28                                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:00                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 17:16                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 17:22                                                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 17:39                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 17:49                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 18:08                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 18:24                                                                           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 18:51                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 19:04                                                                               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 19:15                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 19:26                                                                                   ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 19:46                                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 19:47                                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 19:49                                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 20:14                                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04  3:17                                                                           ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-03 18:17                                                                         ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 17:43                                                                     ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 20:25                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 20:47                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 21:07                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 21:28                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 21:31                                                                       ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 15:27                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:29                                                                           ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:01                                                                             ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 21:45                                                                       ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 22:20                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 22:43                                                                           ` Crash recovery strategies (was: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.) John Wiegley
2016-01-03 22:55                                                                             ` Crash recovery strategies Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 22:59                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:04                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:20                                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:47                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:51                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04  0:12                                                                                   ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04 15:40                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:44                                                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 15:33                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-01-04 15:34                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:02                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-03 23:21                                                                             ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 23:24                                                                               ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:28                                                                                 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-04  0:51                                                                                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-01-03 23:27                                                                               ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:29                                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:33                                                                                   ` Sending automatic crash reports to the FSF (was: Crash recovery strategies) John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:36                                                                                     ` Sending automatic crash reports to the FSF Daniel Colascione
2016-01-03 23:39                                                                                       ` John Wiegley
2016-01-03 23:48                                                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04  1:34                                                                                   ` Crash recovery strategies Drew Adams
2016-01-04 15:32                                                                             ` Crash recovery strategies (was: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.) Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:35                                                                               ` Crash recovery strategies Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:04                                                                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05  4:48                                                                                 ` Richard Stallman
2016-01-05 15:52                                                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 16:37                                                                                     ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-05 17:08                                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-05 17:38                                                                                         ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2016-01-04 15:31                                                                           ` Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:41                                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2016-01-04 16:13                                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:29                                                                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-04 15:26                                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 17:36                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24 18:06                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-24 19:15                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:01                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 16:32                                     ` John Wiegley
2015-12-22 20:31                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22 20:46                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 20:52                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-22 21:08                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-22 21:18                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 16:07                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 16:25                                                 ` Crash robustness (Was: Re: Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc.) Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 17:30                                                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 17:41                                                     ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 17:55                                                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 17:56                                                         ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 18:09                                                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-23 18:19                                                             ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-23 18:45                                                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-24  3:26                                                                 ` Daniel Colascione
2015-12-21 18:57                             ` Dynamic modules: MODULE_HANDLE_SIGNALS etc Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-21 20:15                             ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 15:48           ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 18:27             ` Philipp Stephani
2015-12-20 19:00               ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-20 21:00                 ` Philipp Stephani
2017-03-26 20:18                   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-02-29 22:48           ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-01 16:41             ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-01 21:43               ` Philipp Stephani
2016-03-02 18:54                 ` Paul Eggert
2016-03-31 18:44                   ` Philipp Stephani
2016-04-01  8:29                     ` Paul Eggert
2015-11-28 23:20     ` Paul Eggert

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