On 02/02/2013 01:16 AM, Patrick Walton wrote:
On 2/1/13 11:02 PM, Brian Anderson wrote:
In the library we add this sort of function that simply guarantee that
the closure has some amount of stack available.
do reserve_stack(Standard) { rust_task_fail(); }
do reserve_stack(Tiny) {... }
do reserve_stack(Large) { }
do reserve_stack(Size(4096)) { }
My main worry about this is that it's always guesswork. Determining
how much stack a C function needs is really hard and involves doing a
lot of non-local reasoning. Getting it wrong can result in exploitable
security vulnerabilities. From a safety POV, it seems that you always
really want as big a stack as possible, unless the function is
something trivial like floor().
Perhaps the API is wrong then. I do think this capability is desirable
for core and superior to running code in the red zone. Maybe the primary
interface is a nullary function and there are alternate ways to control
the segment size.
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