Turning a SIGSEGV into a regular function call under Linux, allowing throw

[deadalnix]

Le 14/03/2012 21:59, Sean Kelly a écrit :
> On Mar 14, 2012, at 1:54 PM, FeepingCreature wrote:
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>> I think that case is sufficiently rare that it'd have to count somewhere between "act of god" and "outright developer malice". The assumption that the stack frame is valid is, I'd say, safe to make in the vast majority of cases. You pretty much have to actively try to break it, for no clearly discernible reason.
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> The prevalence of buffer overflow attacks might suggest otherwise.

And as a stack overflow is likely to create a SEGFAULT too, we are doomed !