On 10/3/12 5:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote: > Chet Ramey wrote: >>> Pid 4466 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure. >>> Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space, >>> or stack size exceeded maxssiz. >> >> There's not actually anything you can do about that except use ulimit to >> get as much stack space as you can. > > Well... There is the gnulib c-stack module: > > http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html > > c-stack Stack overflow handling, causing program exit.
Which, at the end of the day, basically provides a way to print a message and exit. The message above is better than most. -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer ``Ars longa, vita brevis'' - Hippocrates Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU c...@case.edu http://cnswww.cns.cwru.edu/~chet/