On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Dave Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Thanks Arun. I suspect the git version would fix the crash I saw, if
> it occurred at the exact same address in the first page again, however
> I wanted to understand the likelihood of getting a crash at some other
> place in the future.
>

The likelihood depends on the compiler version used, presence of handwritten
asm, third party libraries without proper unwind information etc.

There are better solutions possible  (eg: implementing interfaces to query
valid stack addresses in the threading library you're using), but they
require modifications to other pieces of low level code (eg: libc).

 -Arun
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