[Ecls-list] Patch: remove sbrk() usage in handle_signal()

[Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll]

On Sat, Oct 4, 2008 at 9:16 PM, Josh Elsasser <josh at elsasser.org> wrote:
> The new stack overflow detection code uses sbrk(), which is not
> portable.  I'm guessing that it was used to detect if the signal
> handler was executing on the alternate signal stack, if that is the
> case then sigaltstack() would be the portable way to test for that.

Hmmm, I am not sure sigaltstack() does what you are expecting. The
SIGSEGV signal handler will _always_ execute in the alternative stack
and hence your test will always be true.

Juanjo

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