On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:21:30AM +0200, Reggie Cushing wrote: > Hi All - I wish some insight on the possibility of reallocating a > function stack to a malloced regions in realtime ie I jump out of a > function and the next time I jump in the stack would have moved along > with its data. To me it seems unreliable cause the values in the stack > have no type hence I would not know if the stack value is a data value > or a pointer. If I mistakenly interpret a data value as a pointer I will > update the data value resulting in data corruption. I would really wish > some expert insight in this on this subject. > Don't do it. As you mention, you won't be able to conclusively detrmine if you are moving a pointer in the stack or a data value to your new location (i.e. arrays). You could probably make it work most of the time, but you could never guarantee that you always got it right. Neil > Regards > R. > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-c-programming" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
