On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 03:13:29PM -0500, Carol Bouchard wrote: > In our code base (restraint), we patch and recompile the m4 code base. > https://github.com/tar-mirror/gnu-m4 > In their code, they have the following which fails to compile when SIGSTKSZ > < 16384 is interpreted. > This is going to be a challenge to make work. > > # define SIGSTKSZ 8192 > #ifndef SIGSTKSZ > # define SIGSTKSZ 16384 > #elif HAVE_LIBSIGSEGV && SIGSTKSZ < 16384 > /* libsigsegv 2.6 through 2.8 have a bug where some architectures use > more than the Linux default of an 8k alternate stack when deciding > if a fault was caused by stack overflow. */ > # undef SIGSTKSZ > # define SIGSTKSZ 16384 > #endif
AFAICT libsigsegv 2.8 is a release dating from 2009, obsoleted by the 2.9 release in 2010. I'd question whether this code really need to workaround a bug in something that is 11 years old. IOW, I'd suggest just deleting this hack entirely. Regards, Daniel -- |: https://berrange.com -o- https://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange :| |: https://libvirt.org -o- https://fstop138.berrange.com :| |: https://entangle-photo.org -o- https://www.instagram.com/dberrange :| _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
