[BusyBox] choice for reserving buffers

Manuel Novoa III mnovoa3 at bellsouth.net
Fri Jan 26 20:32:38 UTC 2001


On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, Manuel Novoa III wrote:
> Let me be more specific.  Is this really a problem for busybox?  For any applet
> that isn't heavily recursive, I would say no.  You're deciding either to put
> things in BSS or on the stack.  I haven't built a full busybox recently, but
> surely you are talking about less than 100k.  If you've got an MMU, this
> shouldn't be a problem.  When was the last time you saw a seg fault from stack
> overflow that wasn't a compiler bug?

Opps... make that "application bug" ... not "compiler bug".  ;-)

Manuel





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