From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2001-06-10T00:39:18+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:16363] Re: bug?

>>>>> "N" == Neil Conway <nconway@klamath.dyndns.org> writes:

N> Still, there should be a way to detect that it's doing thousands of
N> recursive function calls, and stop it before it dumps core -- right?

 This is what ruby do :-)

    if ((++tick & 0xff) == 0) {
	CHECK_INTS;		/* better than nothing */
	if (stack_length(0) > STACK_LEVEL_MAX) {
	    rb_raise(rb_eSysStackError, "stack level too deep");
	}
    }


Guy Decoux