Re: [bug #29574] VM stack overflows aren't properly handled [1.9.10]

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi Andy,

Please reply through the bug tracker
<http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?29574>.  The patch is there.

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> writes:

> Did you see Dybvig's paper about underflow and overflow handlers? That
> does solve this problem in a more robust way, including allowing for
> stack extension instead of thrown exceptions. Of course that's probably
> a larger project.

I just glanced at “Representing Control in the Presence of First-Class
Continuations”.  The idea of having linked stack segments sounds
interesting and more flexible than what I suggested.  Needs more
thought...

Thanks,
Ludo’.