Timo, if you don't make the guard page valid, you'll just loop forever...
how is that better than an ASSERT? :-)

Best regards,
Alex Ionescu

On Mon, Oct 6, 2014 at 3:21 PM, Timo Kreuzer <timo.kreu...@web.de> wrote:

>
> Well, an ASSERT is supposed to assert something. If it get's triggered,
> there's obviously something wrong. Putting an ASSERT that is known to be
> (potentially) triggered defies the purpose of an ASSERT. For example it
> doesn't make sense to ASSERT that a usermode caller doesn't pass a certain
> flag. A BSOD is not the solution to currently mot having implemented
> something. A DPRINT1 will do just fine (if we finally stopped DPRINTing all
> sorts of crap, creating MBs of debuglogs that noone can analyze, and
> instead added DPRINTs in places where it actually makes sense </rant>)
> So the ASSERT should be replaced with a DPRINT1.
>
> Timo
>
> Am 06.10.2014 17:29, schrieb Alex Ionescu:
>
> The ASSERT is there because of the missing functionality. Please see the
> comment just above.
>
> Best regards,
> Alex Ionescu
>
> On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 2:57 AM, <jgar...@svn.reactos.org> wrote:
>
>> Author: jgardou
>> Date: Sun Oct  5 09:57:02 2014
>> New Revision: 64537
>>
>> URL: http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos?rev=64537&view=rev
>> Log:
>> [NTOS/MM]
>>  - Do not assert in case of stack overflow, just let the page fault
>> handler raise STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW
>>
>> Modified:
>>     trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/pagfault.c
>>
>> Modified: trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/pagfault.c
>> URL:
>> http://svn.reactos.org/svn/reactos/trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/pagfault.c?rev=64537&r1=64536&r2=64537&view=diff
>>
>> ==============================================================================
>> --- trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/pagfault.c   [iso-8859-1] (original)
>> +++ trunk/reactos/ntoskrnl/mm/ARM3/pagfault.c   [iso-8859-1] Sun Oct  5
>> 09:57:02 2014
>> @@ -82,7 +82,6 @@
>>      {
>>          /* We don't -- Windows would try to make this guard page valid
>> now */
>>          DPRINT1("Close to our death...\n");
>> -        ASSERT(FALSE);
>>          return STATUS_STACK_OVERFLOW;
>>      }
>>
>>
>>
>>
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