From: "Martin J. Dürst" <duerst@...>
Date: 2011-02-24T10:02:23+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:35357] Re: eval'ing large strings runs out of stack space?

Hello Roger,

On 2011/02/24 5:28, Roger Pack wrote:
> Hello all.
> This code:
>
> eval (['000000000']*500000).inspect

This doesn't result in a large string, but in a large array.

> with 1.9.2 (but not jruby)
>
> causes this:
>
> das_inspect:0: stack level too deep (SystemStackError)

This may be related to http://redmine.ruby-lang.org/issues/982.
Or it may not. In bug 982, an explicit array literal is causing the 
problem (the first ruby invocation on the command line just creates a 
ruby program with a long array literal, the stack overflow occurs in the 
second ruby invocation (after the pipe).

> Is this expected?

It shouldn't.

Regards,   Martin.

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