ftp://ftp.ocs.com.au/pub/kernel.stack.gz. ix86 specific, probably gcc
specific and it only picks up code that you compile. The Stanford
checker is much better.
>> On a side note, does anyone know if the kernel does checking if the
>> stack overflowed at any time?
>
>You normally get a silent hang or worse a stack fault exception
>(which linux/x86 without kdb cannot recover from) which gives you instant
>reboot.
You cannot recover from a kernel stack overflow even with kdb. The
exception handler and kdb use the stack that just overflowed.
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