From: Robert Klemme <bob.news@...>
Date: 2005-03-18T17:54:53+09:00
Subject: Re: Maximum stack depth


"vruz" <horacio.lopez@gmail.com> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:6b809bd8050317072128a96c1f@mail.gmail.com...
> > Is it just me, or does a stack limited to less than 1000 levels of
> > recursion seem... crippled?
>
> 1891 levels in my old redhat linux 7.3 box, ruby 1.8.2 built from source

Just to add another number:

09:49:43 [source]: ruby -e 'def t(i) p i;t(i+1) end;t 0'
....
13280
13281
13282
13283
-e:1:in `p': stack level too deep (SystemStackError)
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
         ... 13274 levels...
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1:in `t'
        from -e:1
09:49:48 [source]: uname -a
CYGWIN_NT-5.0 bond 1.5.12(0.116/4/2) 2004-11-10 08:34 i686 unknown unknown
Cygwin
09:51:46 [source]: ruby -v
ruby 1.8.1 (2003-12-25) [i386-cygwin]
09:51:49 [source]: ulimit
unlimited
09:51:59 [source]:

Kind regards

    robert