[kaffe] CVS kaffe (guilhem): Implemented stack overflow detection.

[Stuart Ballard]

Kaffe CVS wrote:
>         * configure.ac: Check for sigaltstack.

Note that this feature on Mono caused problems when a Mono binary built 
on a 2.6 kernel (by my friendly neighborhood Debian packager) was 
deployed on an older kernel (like mine). Mono added a 
--enable-sigaltstack=no (IIRC) option that distributors are supposed to 
use to cope with this.

(In Mono's case, the end result was that you got segfaults instead of 
NullPointerExceptions, which is bad ;) )

Is this same thing going to happen to Kaffe, and if so, would a similar 
solution be in order?

Thanks,
Stuart.

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