Also, the stack check checks for being near a stack overflow, so a nice and safe RangeError can be thrown before the operating system kills the process due to an actual stack overflow ;-)
On Wed, Feb 24, 2016 at 1:22 AM, Orion Hodson <[email protected]> wrote: > JavaScript is a single threaded execution environment. When v8 is running > a script, it may receive an external interrupt that requires immediate > attention and necessitates pre-empting the currently running script to some > other work. A prime example of this would be debug break request from the > debugger. v8 also needs to do periodic book-keeping tasks like increment > the code profiler tick count (part of selecting code for optimization). > These are all processed StackGuard::HandleInterrupts (execution.cc). > StackCheck and InterruptCheck both execute this with StackCheck > additionally performing an overflow check on the stack. > > -- > -- > v8-dev mailing list > [email protected] > http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "v8-dev" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- v8-dev mailing list [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/v8-dev --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "v8-dev" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
