Re: Detect Stack Overflows?

["Manish Katiyar" <mkatiyar@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 2:34 PM, Rajat Jain <Rajat.Jain@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  Is there a way to detect stack overflows in the kernel?

Kernel configuration has an option to "check for stack overflows"
under kernel hacking section. Is that what you are looking for ?
grep your .config for DEBUG_STACKOVERFLOW

Hope that helps.....

>
>  I mean, apart from "You should use it sparingly" suggestions :-).
>
>  Thanks,
>
>  Rajat
>
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