From: MenTaLguY <mental@...>
Date: 2005-11-04T14:42:47+09:00
Subject: Re: Lack of SystemStackError

On Fri, 2005-11-04 at 14:22 +0900, Daniel Berger wrote:
> 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.
>
> I don't see this behavior on my other (Solaris, Windows) machines.
> What's up?

Raising SystemStackError if the stack gets too deep is a courtesy, not a
promise.  Same goes for NoMemoryError and running out of memory.

It's possible, in either case, that raising the error would require more
of the resource that you just ran out of.

-mental