merges r23720 from trunk into ruby_1_9_1.

--
* thread.c (ruby_thread_stack_overflow): call rb_exc_raise() on
  stack overflows in the signal handler, if sigaltstack is
  available.  On stack overflow (and with sigaltstack), the signal
  handler is more likely to have room to create an exception
  object.  [ruby-core:23813]

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/branches/ruby_1_9_1@23794 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/thread.c b/thread.c
index fce974acf4..91b957681d 100644
--- a/thread.c
+++ b/thread.c
@@ -1302,12 +1302,21 @@ rb_thread_signal_exit(void *thptr)
     rb_thread_raise(2, argv, th->vm->main_thread);
 }
 
+#if defined(POSIX_SIGNAL) && defined(SIGSEGV) && defined(HAVE_SIGALTSTACK)
+#define USE_SIGALTSTACK
+#endif
+
 void
 ruby_thread_stack_overflow(rb_thread_t *th)
 {
-    th->errinfo = sysstack_error;
     th->raised_flag = 0;
+#ifdef USE_SIGALTSTACK
+    th->raised_flag = 0;
+    rb_exc_raise(sysstack_error);
+#else
+    th->errinfo = sysstack_error;
     TH_JUMP_TAG(th, TAG_RAISE);
+#endif
 }
 
 int