From: ts <decoux@...>
Date: 2002-01-17T23:14:41+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible bug in Mac version?

>>>>> "D" == Dave Thomas <Dave@PragmaticProgrammer.com> writes:

D>     The following program makes Ruby crash whenever you use the number
D>     400.

 This is not a problem of stack size ?

pigeon% cat b.rb
#!/usr/bin/ruby
def fact(n)
   if n == 0
      1
   else
      n * fact(n-1)
   end
end
print fact(ARGV[0].to_i), "\n"
pigeon% 

pigeon% ulimit -s
8192
pigeon%
 
pigeon% b.rb 400
64034522846623895262347970319503005850702583026002959458684445942802397169186831436278478647463264676294350575035856810848298162883517435228961988646802997937341654150838162426461942352307046244325015114448670890662773914918117331955996440709549671345290477020322434911210797593280795101545372667251627877890009349763765710326350331533965349868386831339352024373788157786791506311858702618270169819740062983025308591298346162272304558339520759611505302236086810433297255194852674432232438669948422404232599805551610635942376961399231917134063858996537970147827206606320217379472010321356624613809077942304597360699567595836096158715129913822286578579549361617654480453222007825818400848436415591229454275384803558374518022675900061399560145595206127211192918105032491008000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
pigeon% 

pigeon% ulimit -s 1024
pigeon% ulimit -s
1024
pigeon%
 
pigeon% b.rb 400
Segmentation fault
pigeon% 



Guy Decoux