Re: Access thread stack from another thread

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On 4 June 2010 17:16, Group <mailforgroup@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Is it possible to access threads stack (not shared) from another thread?
> I have seen an API which gets the attributes for the stack
> pthread_attr_getstack().
> But is it possible to access the DATA on the thread stack?. Is there any api
> for it?.

Since the stack address is just a memory address, so you can
dereference it to read values.  If you as a program writer know which
function executes on the stack, you could create a struct that reads
values off it (integers, strings, floats, etc., instead of just
bytes).

-- 
Vimal

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