Does Rust expose call stack depth?

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Background information: I have a function that calls itself both directly and indirectly through other functions, and would like a cheap way to fail gracefully should the program run out of call stack. I could count calls manually, but I would like a more elegant and robust way of achieving this.

Is it possible to determine current call stack depth using stable Rust?

The only options I could find are:

  1. Following the stack in ASM, but it requires unstable and is not portable.
  2. Using a GNU libc extension (backtrace). However, backtrace is too wasteful and also not standard.
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1 Answers

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The stacker crate seems to provide the functionality you seek:

  • A function to guarantee the amount of available stack
  • A function to query the amount of remaining stack, which you could use to bail before the program actually stack-overflows

The library supports the Linux, Windows and macOS targets.