From: "Berger, Daniel" <Daniel.Berger@...>
Date: 2005-11-05T00:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Lack of SystemStackError

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gregory Brown [mailto:gregory.t.brown@gmail.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, November 03, 2005 10:50 PM
> To: ruby-talk ML
> Subject: Re: Lack of SystemStackError

<snip>
 
> Still sounds like a bug.   On OS X 10.3 and Gentoo (Linux Kernel 2.6)
> I get an immediate SystemStackError after no halt running the 
> code Daniel posted.  Both are running 1.8.2
> 
> I googled and saw that a miscalculated stack depth was  
> supposedly fixed a couple years a go in suse packages (with 
> 1.8.0, i think)

Unfortunately, I don't know enough to know whether or not it should be
considered a bug, though I suspect it is.  However, now I know not to
explicitly check for SystemStackError in test cases. ;)

Regards,

Dan