From: "Ara.T.Howard" <Ara.T.Howard@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T14:32:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Lack of SystemStackError

On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Daniel Berger wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Ruby 1.8.x (2,3,4)
> Suse Linux 9.3
> gcc 3.3.5
> 1 gb ram
>
> Linux linux 2.6.11.4-21.9-default #1 Fri Aug 19 11:58:59 UTC 2005 i686
> athlon i386 GNU/Linux
>
> I notice that when I try a recursive function in an attempt to
> deliberately raise a SystemStackError, it instead just goes  into an
> infinite loop, freezes my system, and is eventually killed (with no
> error), by the OS.

is that bad?  ;-)

-a
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