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Re: unfinite recursion causes segfault


From: Aleksey Cheusov
Subject: Re: unfinite recursion causes segfault
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2008 16:45:42 +0200
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.1 (gnu/linux)

> In general, it is difficult, if not impossible, to distinguish infinite
> recursion from merely "very deep" recursion, without imposing an arbitrary
> limit on function call nesting level.  Doing this goes against the
> GNU design principle of "no arbitrary limits".
Ok.

> Also, how would gawk choose a limit? On systems with 128M of memory the
> limit should be smaller than on a system with 2G of memory.
This limit can be obtained from environment variable but I don't insist.
You can leave it all as it is now.

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Best regards, Aleksey Cheusov.




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