From: Bil Kleb <Bil.Kleb@...>
Date: 2004-10-03T03:20:27+09:00
Subject: Re: IA64 Ruby compilation sucessful

Shashank Date asked:
> Bil Kleb wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, instead of only 44 levels with the crippled stack, we
> 
>> managed to get to 105k stack levels before it seg-faulted and
>> dumped a >2GB core(!) with our little test code,
> 
> Just curious ... how many stack levels before it seg-faulted on the 
> 32-bit version?

$ cat > hello.rb
  def helloLevel level
   puts "hello world! "+level.to_s
   helloLevel(level+1)
  end

  helloLevel 0
[Ctrl-d]

$ ruby hello.rb
[..]
hello world! 4542
hello.rb:3:in `helloLevel': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
         from hello.rb:3:in `helloLevel'

on linux x86.  Note: it does not segfault, but raises an exception.
Adam Williams reports 1257 on OSX.3.

Regards,
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Bil from Ruby Conf '04