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Ben Gamari
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Previously we would push stack-carried return values to the new stack on a stack overflow. While the precise reasoning for this barrier is unfortunately lost to history, in hindsight I suspect it was prompted by a missing barrier elsewhere (that has been since fixed). Moreover, there the redundant barrier is actively harmful: the stack may contain non-pointer values; blindly pushing these to the mark queue will result in a crash. This is precisely what happened in the `stack003` test. However, because of a (now fixed) deficiency in the test this crash did not trigger on amd64.