Is it possible to predict a stack overflow in C on Linux?

Question

There are certain conditions that can cause stack overflows on an x86 Linux system:

• struct my_big_object[HUGE_NUMBER] on the stack. Walking throu

Answer 1

You don't say much about why you want to allocate on the stack, but if it is the stack memory model which is appealing, you could implement stack allocation on the heap as well. Allocate a large chunk of memory at the beginning of the program and keep a stack of pointers to this which would correspond to frames on the regular stack. You just need to remember to pop your private stack pointer when the function returns.