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From: anthony@alberta.UUCP (Anthony Mutiso)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Reading and writing the Stack
Keywords: stack, core, automatic variables, read
Message-ID: <163@snipe-lake.UUCP>
Date: 8 Nov 88 02:01:10 GMT
Organization: U. of Alberta, Edmonton, AB
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Hi, there Netfolks:

Any one have any ideas how one can do the following in C:-

	(1) find the bottom and the top of a processes stack.
	(2) read the information on stack.
	(3) copy the stack to disk ala core dump, as a way of saving the
	    process context.
	(4) write to the stack (i.e grow the stack and place return addresses and
	    automatic variables (initialized), etc, on it.

I would like to prime a processes stack, so a process can begin from somewhere
in the middle of its address space (in some special function, rather than the
in the main) and unwind the stack in the usual way when the special function returns)

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Anthony Mutiso
			anthony@alberta.UUCP