From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@...>
Date: 2006-04-13T17:33:00+09:00
Subject: Re: Segmentation fault in recursive function

Hi,

2006/4/13, Sven Klemm <sven@c3d2.de>:
> I know the code does not make that much sense but nervertheless should
> ruby never segfault but throw a SystemStackError or something similar.
>
> I am using ruby 1.8.4 under Gentoo (powerpc). On a x86 computer the code
> correctly throws a SystemStackError.

Stack overflow can't be caught always.  There's no way (portable one,
at least) to tell it from other segfaults.

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