[Mono-bugs] [Bug 81685][Wis] Changed - Stack Overflow detection

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Changed by miguel at ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=81685

--- shadow/81685	2007-05-24 06:31:13.000000000 -0400
+++ shadow/81685.tmp.3305	2007-05-24 11:48:31.000000000 -0400
@@ -159,6 +159,14 @@
 
 ------- Additional Comments From lupus at ximian.com  2007-05-24 06:31 -------
 Jim likely talked about stack overflow in unmanaged code and as I said
 above, it's hard to recover in that case, the only option may be to
 abort. The issue is different with managed code overflows, which we
 need to handle (and the MS implementation handles as well).
+
+------- Additional Comments From miguel at ximian.com  2007-05-24 11:48 -------
+We were talking specifically about managed code not about interactions
+with unmanaged code (which would make things even worse).
+
+One of the points is finalizers: there is no way you can guarantee
+proper unwinding if the finalizers can potentially cause another stack
+overflow (as Robert example shows).