Stack overflow, but can't change the code
My issue is that I have a calculation that overflows the stack by a little bit (it's deterministic and will never increase past around 1.15 MB). I can't change the code to not do that, unless business approves some funds for serious refactoring, so the question is, how to proceed. I wanted to increase the stack size to 2MB for the one calculation thread, which seems pretty reasonable. But not sure what the best way to do that would be.
Starting a new thread with the specified amount will mean I have to do some extra exception processing. How would I do that? Try/catch around the thread's code, and hoist the exception object out of the stack? Then rethrow from the outside? I will lose internal stack information that way, no? Throw a new exception on the outside, with the exception object as the inner exception? A bit more annoying to handle, but could work... are there any better ideas?
This isn't a normal "thread" scenario, since I start the thread and immediately join it, I don't actually want anything to run in parallel, I only do it to increase the stack size. So does this give me other options? Runtime cost of spawning/joining a new thread in this scenario is irrelevant.
Alternatively, is there a better way to handle the stack size increase?
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