Very big picture - if we want to banish stack overflows forever, we would need to migrate the industry to split runtime stacks, which would add a bit of runtime overhead to every native function call. No one is heroic enough to make progress towards that. Maybe developers of new OSes need to read this thread?
--- Today, linux kernels run with a variety of libc implementations, so attempts to use a private glibc symbol might end up looking just like trying to use a public one, using dlsym at runtime. --- It seems reasonable to switch from _dl_get_tls_static_info to __pthread_get_minstack. One strong hint is that glibc uses that when it needs to create its own helper thread with minimal stack. But why-oh-why not expose that for use by others? Other software like Java or Rust has the same needs! /* The helper thread needs only very little resources. */ (void) pthread_attr_setstacksize (&attr, __pthread_get_minstack (&attr) + 4 * PTHREAD_STACK_MIN);
