Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750786AbVKJLvI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:51:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750790AbVKJLvI (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:51:08 -0500 Received: from public.id2-vpn.continvity.gns.novell.com ([195.33.99.129]:28677 "EHLO emea1-mh.id2.novell.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750786AbVKJLvH (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Nov 2005 06:51:07 -0500 Message-Id: <43734277.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> X-Mailer: Novell GroupWise Internet Agent 7.0 Date: Thu, 10 Nov 2005 12:52:07 +0100 From: "Jan Beulich" To: "Adrian Bunk" Cc: Subject: Re: [PATCH 17/39] NLKD/i386 - core adjustments References: <43720FBA.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43720FF6.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43721024.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <4372105B.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43721119.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43721142.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <43721184.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <437211B6.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <20051109190017.GB4047@stusta.de> <43730D3A.76F0.0078.0@novell.com> <20051110102936.GA5376@stusta.de> In-Reply-To: <20051110102936.GA5376@stusta.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 677 Lines: 16 >If there's a chance of a stack overflow the stack usage has to be >reduced until the chance goes down to 0. How does one reduce stack usage in the presence of recursion driven by user input (referring to expression evaluation)? Also, NLKD has an extension to the (simplistic) pt_regs frame (including e.g. floating point state) and may be used to debug itself (i.e. there may be more than one frame on the stack at a time). Jan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/