Article: Finding memory bugs in D code with AddressSanitizer

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On Friday, 5 January 2018 at 01:32:50 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
> On 1/3/2018 4:46 PM, Walter Bright wrote:
>> On 1/3/2018 3:16 PM, Martin Nowak wrote:
>>> https://issues.dlang.org/show_bug.cgi?id=18190
>> 
>> This is a stack overflow caused by having 4096 expression 
>> statements. The compiler joins them with a commaexpression, 
>> and then recursively traverses it.
>> 
>>  > Nothing in the D part, not too surprising given dmd's 
>> approach to memory
>> management though ;).
>> 
>> Stack overflow has nothing to do with memory management.
>
> I'm a little curious about the stack overflow. I thought Linux 
> would automatically extend the stack if it overflowed?

it will, but only up to the rlimit. then it will SIGSEGV.

http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/getrlimit.2.html