On 10/08/2012 02:43 PM, Krishnan Parthasarathi wrote: > I tried the experiment you had suggested. The following are the > changes I made to 'inner' function to take a single integer arg. > On compiling (gcc inner.c) and running, I didn't see any crash :( Are you sure you ran it both with and without arguments? Without arguments it doesn't overwrite the stack and you won't see a crash with either version. With arguments it does overwrite the stack and you should see a crash (I did) with either version. jdarcy@jdarcy-dt snippets 14:46 $ ./inner in outer function in inner function, result = 0x5678:5678 in inner function, result = 0x5678:42 jdarcy@jdarcy-dt snippets 14:46 $ ./inner xxx in outer function in inner function, result = 0x5678:5678 rewriting stack Segmentation fault (core dumped)
