On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:43 PM, Bob Bell <address@hidden>wrote:
> The systems where I use libunwind have relatively small stacks. Parts
> of libunwind put PATH_MAX on the stack, sometimes more than once. This
> can lead to stack overflow, at which point my applications die without
> *ANY* indication of why they died.
>
> I'm using the patch below. It converts the big stack allocations I've
> found into mallocs. It remedies the problems I've been seeing, at least
> for me.
Please do not introduce mallocs in libunwind. It makes libunwind unusable as
a heap profiler.
Does mempool_alloc() work for you?