From: Yukihiro Matsumoto <matz@...>
Date: 2009-10-24T08:48:52+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:26265] Re: [Bug #2246] segfault instead of SystemStackError in 1.8.x

Hi,

In message "Re: [ruby-core:26216] [Bug #2246] segfault instead of SystemStackError in 1.8.x"
    on Wed, 21 Oct 2009 23:56:00 +0900, Roger Pack <redmine@ruby-lang.org> writes:

|Bug #2246: segfault instead of SystemStackError in 1.8.x

It's know issue.  Ruby interpreter checks stack depth periodically, so
when stack grows too fast, it causes SEGV before next depth check.
Frequent checks would prevent the problem, but slows down the
interpreter a lot.

							matz.