# sigaltstack.m4 serial 2 dnl Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Bruno Haible dnl This file is free software, distributed under the terms of the GNU dnl General Public License. As a special exception to the GNU General dnl Public License, this file may be distributed as part of a program dnl that contains a configuration script generated by Autoconf, under dnl the same distribution terms as the rest of that program. AC_DEFUN([SV_SIGALTSTACK], [ AC_REQUIRE([AC_PROG_CC]) AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) AC_CHECK_FUNCS(sigaltstack) if test "$ac_cv_func_sigaltstack" = yes; then AC_CHECK_TYPE(stack_t, , [AC_DEFINE(stack_t, [struct sigaltstack], [Define to 'struct sigaltstack' if that's the type of the argument to sigaltstack]) ], [ #include #if HAVE_SYS_SIGNAL_H # include #endif ]) fi AC_CACHE_CHECK([for working sigaltstack], sv_cv_sigaltstack, [ if test "$ac_cv_func_sigaltstack" = yes; then AC_TRY_RUN([ #include #include #if HAVE_SYS_SIGNAL_H # include #endif #if HAVE_SETRLIMIT # include # include # include #endif void stackoverflow_handler (int sig) { /* If we get here, the stack overflow was caught. */ exit (0); } int recurse (int n) { if (n >= 0) return n + recurse (n + 1); else return 0; } int main () { char mystack[16384]; stack_t altstack; struct sigaction action; #if defined HAVE_SETRLIMIT && defined RLIMIT_STACK /* Before starting the endless recursion, try to be friendly to the user's machine. On some Linux 2.2.x systems, there is no stack limit for user processes at all. We don't want to kill such systems. */ struct rlimit rl; rl.rlim_cur = rl.rlim_max = 0x100000; /* 1 MB */ setrlimit (RLIMIT_STACK, &rl); #endif /* Install the alternate stack. */ altstack.ss_sp = mystack; altstack.ss_size = sizeof (mystack); altstack.ss_flags = 0; /* no SS_DISABLE */ if (sigaltstack (&altstack, NULL) < 0) exit (1); /* Install the SIGSEGV handler. */ sigemptyset (&action.sa_mask); action.sa_handler = &stackoverflow_handler; action.sa_flags = SA_ONSTACK; sigaction (SIGSEGV, &action, (struct sigaction *) NULL); sigaction (SIGBUS, &action, (struct sigaction *) NULL); /* Provoke a stack overflow. */ recurse (0); exit (2); }], sv_cv_sigaltstack=yes, sv_cv_sigaltstack=no, [ dnl FIXME: Put in some more known values here. case "$host_os" in *) AC_TRY_LINK([#include ], [int x = SA_ONSTACK; stack_t ss; sigaltstack ((stack_t*)0, &ss);], sv_cv_sigaltstack="guessing yes", sv_cv_sigaltstack=no) ;; esac ]) else sv_cv_sigaltstack=no fi ]) if test "$sv_cv_sigaltstack" != no; then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_WORKING_SIGALTSTACK, 1, [Define if you have the sigaltstack() function and it works.]) fi ])