https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=87220
--- Comment #5 from Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at gcc dot gnu.org> --- > Eric, can you please contribute a documentation patch that would explain > what -fstack-check is designed to do? Existing documentation does not say > anything about the extra page. Is it supposed to be useful for languages > other that Ada at all? I presume so, if you need to recover from the stack overflow. Not every language can afford to simply abort the process like C...