Re: [Valgrind-developers] valgrind: r4122 - trunk/coregrind

[Robert W. <rj...@du...>]

On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:46 -0400, Greg Parker wrote:
> sv...@va... writes:
> >    --smc-support-stack
> >=20
> >       Add checking code for translations taken from segments which
> >       have the SF_GROWDOWN flag set -- stacks, basically.
> >       This is the default.  It should make gcc nested functions and
> >       GNU Ada work correctly with no intervention from the user.
>=20
> Valgrind should mark stacks explicitly. Mac OS X's stacks are always=20
> fixed-size, so none of them would be marked SF_GROWDOWN.

There's currently a mechanism in place to mark stacks as such, for the
user-level thread problem.  Probably that could be co-opted for this
purpose.

--=20
Robert Walsh
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