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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2021-03-09 11:22:59 -0800
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2021-03-09 11:26:33 -0800
commitf97e07ea807cc6d38774a3888a15091b20645ac6 (patch)
treee7efa82c5616fdc1bf240c7c0ae393b80cc564dc /src/sysdep.c
parentc6ed17cc70ee49250f7d3999bb56918f0e925757 (diff)
downloademacs-f97e07ea807cc6d38774a3888a15091b20645ac6.tar.gz
Port alternate signal stack to upcoming glibc 2.34
* src/sysdep.c (sigsegv_stack): Increase size to 64 KiB and align it to max_align_t. This copies from Gnulib’s c-stack.c, and works around a portability bug in draft glibc 2.34, which no longer defines SIGSTKSZ when _GNU_SOURCE is defined.
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1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/src/sysdep.c b/src/sysdep.c
index 941b4e2fa24..24d8832b2f3 100644
--- a/src/sysdep.c
+++ b/src/sysdep.c
@@ -1785,7 +1785,15 @@ handle_arith_signal (int sig)
/* Alternate stack used by SIGSEGV handler below. */
-static unsigned char sigsegv_stack[SIGSTKSZ];
+/* Storage for the alternate signal stack.
+ 64 KiB is not too large for Emacs, and is large enough
+ for all known platforms. Smaller sizes may run into trouble.
+ For example, libsigsegv 2.6 through 2.8 have a bug where some
+ architectures use more than the Linux default of an 8 KiB alternate
+ stack when deciding if a fault was caused by stack overflow. */
+static max_align_t sigsegv_stack[(64 * 1024
+ + sizeof (max_align_t) - 1)
+ / sizeof (max_align_t)];
/* Return true if SIGINFO indicates a stack overflow. */