On Sat, 6 Oct 2018 at 02:10, Ian Lance Taylor <i...@golang.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Oct 5, 2018 at 3:21 PM, Scott Cotton <w...@iri-labs.com> wrote:
> >
> > On Fri, 5 Oct 2018 at 23:46, Scott Cotton <w...@iri-labs.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Thanks much for the info.
> >>
> >> Do you have any more pointers about how one may assess whether or ensure
> >> that a stack overflow check
> >> is not necessary in order to safely use this directive?
> >
> >
> > Perhaps the compiler automatically accounts for the lack of stack
> overflow
> > check in the functions which call
> > a function annotation with go:nosplit?
>
> If the linker detects a possible sequence of go:nosplit calls that
> will use up too much stack space, it will issue an error.  But the
> linker check can be fooled in various ways.
>

Thanks.

Can you point to the entry point of the linker check in the sources?
Are they the same for gccgo and gc?

Scott

>
> Ian
>


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