[Issue 5176] Limit static object sizes

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http://d.puremagic.com/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=5176



--- Comment #20 from Don <clugdbug at yahoo.com.au> 2013-01-10 01:14:30 PST ---
(In reply to comment #18)
> (In reply to comment #17)
> > Windows inserts a "guard page" that is hardware protected beyond the end of the
> > allocated stack. A stack overflow runs into that guard page, which throws a seg
> > fault.
> > 
> > It does not corrupt memory.
> 
> What about the rest of the platforms?

On our code (Linux only, derived from Tango, its basically the same as
druntime) our fibers allocate a guard page at the end of the stack. We added
this because we found that stack overflows in fibers are easy to create but
difficult to debug.

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