Re: `max-specpdl-size' and `max-lisp-eval-depth'

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Stephen Berman <stephen.berman@gmx.net> writes:

> The term goes back to the beginnings of Lisp (McCarthy's paper from
> 1960, available via the Wayback Machine from
> http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/node4.html):
>
>   In general (we shall discuss an exception), the routine for a
>   recursive function uses itself as a subroutine [...] This possible
>   conflict is resolved by the SAVE and UNSAVE routines that use the
>   public push-down list.

Perhaps we should put something about this in the `max-specpdl-size' doc
string.  You wouldn't happen to know what the "spec" part is referring
to?  :-)

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