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authorDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2017-06-13 09:11:13 +0100
committerDavid Mitchell <davem@iabyn.com>2017-06-24 09:38:14 +0100
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add PL_curstackinfo->si_stack_hwm
On debugging builds only, add a mechanism for checking pp function calls for insufficient stack extending. It works by: * make the runops loop set a high-water-mark (HWM) variable equal to PL_stack_sp just before calling each pp function; * make EXTEND() etc update this HWM; * on return from the pp function, panic if PL_stack_sp is > HWM. This detects whether pp functions are pushing more items onto the stack than they are requesting space for. There's a possibility of false positives if the code is doing weird stuff like direct manipulation of stacks via PL_curstack, SWITCHSTACK() etc. It's also possible that one pp function "knows" that a previous pp function will have already grown the stack enough. Currently the only place in core that seems to do this is pp_enteriter, which allocates 1 stack slot so that pp_iter doesn't have to check each time it returns &PL_sv_yes/no. To accommodate this, the new macro EXTEND_SKIP() has been added, that tells perl that it's safely skipping an EXTEND() here.
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