[MPlayer-dev-eng] [PATCH] fix scaler on 64 bit

[Uoti Urpala]

On Sat, 2006-05-06 at 02:34 +0200, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> ideg, i hate linux, why on earth are signal handlers using the normal
> stack?! its idiotic, if a program crashes i dont want to have something
> random written at a random memory address but want to see the unmodified
> stack ...
> anyway ill try to remove esp usage, i was unaware that signal handlers
> use the "user stack" ....

You can specify another stack address with sigaltstack(). You need to
specify use of that stack address for each signal handler individually
though. I haven't used it myself and do not know whether you can
guarantee that the usual stack address won't be used for anything.