c-stack: work around libsigsegv 2.8 bug

* lib/c-stack.c (SIGSTKSZ): Increase size to avoid alternate stack
overflow on at least PowerPC64.

Signed-off-by: Eric Blake <eblake@redhat.com>

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 30d89ea2a3c8d987925a1a38492e82a1a5d1d10e..a265b14bd0ef486b270407e1d096d31f2e62b24d 100644 (file)
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+2010-10-21  Eric Blake  <eblake@redhat.com>
+
+       c-stack: work around libsigsegv 2.8 bug
+       * lib/c-stack.c (SIGSTKSZ): Increase size to avoid alternate stack
+       overflow on at least PowerPC64.
+
 2010-10-17  Bruno Haible  <bruno@clisp.org>
 
        userspec: Drop redundant file.

diff --git a/lib/c-stack.c b/lib/c-stack.c
index 46575489de96688c3e0fa22a3fa644511b591a83..0cf6b052d7fa37984267b2fcce7cec14e51d145e 100644 (file)
--- a/lib/c-stack.c
+++ b/lib/c-stack.c
@@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ typedef struct sigaltstack stack_t;
 #endif
 #ifndef SIGSTKSZ
 # define SIGSTKSZ 16384
+#elif HAVE_LIBSIGSEGV && SIGSTKSZ < 16384
+/* libsigsegv 2.6 through 2.8 have a bug where some architectures use
+   more than the Linux default of an 8k alternate stack when deciding
+   if a fault was caused by stack overflow.  */
+# undef SIGSTKSZ
+# define SIGSTKSZ 16384
 #endif
 
 #include <stdlib.h>