> > I want to catch stack overflow exceptions in my program.
> > I use sigaltstack to set up alternate stack on which SIGSEGV signals should 
> > processed, and siglongjmp from signal handler to jump to restore point.
> >
> > But in this case signal handler executes on alternate stack only once.
> > In next times signal handler executes on main program stack.
> 
> Yep, known bug.  Need to add a function (with MD implementation) to
> return the stack pointer from the userframe, then use that to test
> whether the thread is running on its altstack instead of the current
> implementation which sets a flag when a signal is delivered to a
> thread that puts it on its altstack and only clears that flag when
> sigreturn() is invoked.
> 
> It would be nice if you could convert your test program into something
> that fits under regress/, so that we can have a test for this going
> forward...
> 

Thank you.

It turns out that regression test already present -- regress/sys/kern/stackjmp

Best regards, Alexander.

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