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    rts: fix race condition in StgCRun · fd984d68
    Tamar Christina authored and Marge Bot's avatar Marge Bot committed
    On windows the stack has to be allocated 4k at a time, otherwise we get
    a segfault. This is done by using a helper ___chkstk_ms that is provided
    by libgcc. The Haskell side already knows how to handle this but we need
    to do the same from STG. Previously we would drop the stack in StgRun
    but would only make it valid whenever the scheduler loop ran.
    
    This approach was fundamentally broken in that it falls apart when you
    take a signal from the OS. We see it less often because you initially
    get allocated a 1MB stack block which you have to blow past first.
    
    Concretely this means we must always keep the stack valid.
    
    Fixes #18601.
    fd984d68