Can I get the limits of the stack in C / C++?

Question

My question is pretty simple and straightforward: if I have e.g. 1MB of RAM assigned to the program\'s stack, can I get the addresses of the start and the end, or the start and

Answer 1

GetCurrentThreadStackLimits seems to do what you're looking for, getting the lower/upper boundaries of the stack into pointer addresses:

ULONG_PTR lowLimit;
ULONG_PTR highLimit;
GetCurrentThreadStackLimits(&lowLimit, &highLimit);

Looks like it is only available on Windows 8 and Server 2012 though.

Check the MSDN