On Wed, 21 Mar 2012, Dennis Clarke wrote: > What I find interesting is why we see an internal compiler error > as opposed to something more reasonable when the user stack size is > too small. Really, this is not a compiler fault at all but a user > environment issue and thus the ICE is a false alarm.
I suppose we could use sigaltstack where available and a signal handler to detect stack overflow on suitable hosts to give a better message. It ought to be possible to use -fsplit-stack to avoid stack overflow - it would be interesting to know if that works (if GCC is built with -fsplit-stack, and linked with gold, on a host for which this is properly supported) and how it affects GCC's performance. -- Joseph S. Myers jos...@codesourcery.com
