Re: Smashing the stack

[Doug Stewart]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <address@hidden> wrote:

This seems like a rather esoteric thing to do, but:

   a = {}
   for i = 1:1e6
       a = {rand, a};
   endfor

   for i = 2:1e6
       a = a{2};
   endfor

This segfaults for me after a relatively long time, presumably since
the call stack goes up to about 1e6 stack frames.

Is it worthwhile trying to fix this?

- Jordi G. H.

Works OK for me in the GUI with todays compile.

octave:1> run '/home/doug/test55.m'

a = {}(0x0)

octave:2> whos a

Variables in the current scope:

   Attr Name        Size                     Bytes  Class

   ==== ====        ====                     =====  =====

        a           1x2                          8  cell

Total is 2 elements using 8 bytes

octave:3>

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DAS

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