Thank you.  I may very well do that.

Carol

On Thu, Mar 4, 2021 at 4:57 AM Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com>
wrote:

> 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
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