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guard page

A strip of forbidden addresses just past the end of the stack, placed there so running off the end is caught instead of silently trampling other memory.

A guard page is an inaccessible region placed beyond a stack's limit so that overflowing into it faults; how the operating system enforces this is explained in Chapter 29.

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stack overflow
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