Hi,
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Dick Hendrickson wrote:
> Peter Shenkin wrote:
> [discussion of stack overflow]
> >
> > The new C standard (C99) has the same problem. C99 has
> > VLA's (variable-length arrays) which, when used as
> > local variables, are exactly like F90's automatic arrays.
> > Stack overflow leads to SEGV.
> >
> > However, there is a proposal for the next C standard to
> > provide a means of identification and graceful exit when
> > the problem occurs. The proposal was written by David Tribble,
...
> How would it work? ...
http://home.flash.net/~dtribble/text/c0xstack.txt
-P.
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