[fiber] Add stack overflow check in every yield #1219
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The weakness of fibers is their stack usage, and the main issue is stack overflows. With the current lack of stack overflow checking, it is extremely easy to write code that silently overflows the stack and causes all sorts of issues. Particularly when the overflow only happens in occasionally, this can lead to a horrible debug experience.
Sadly this will increase switching times a bit, but there's really no point to not checking stack overflows, it's the core problem with stackful scheduling.
After this feature, I would consider fibers to be ready for prime time, and I would deprecate protothreads/resumables not running in fiber mode (in a separate PR). Otherwise we'll never get past GCC12.
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