From: nobu.nokada@...
Date: 2002-02-14T18:20:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Possible bug -- ruby cvs (1.7.2 2002-02-10) interpreter seg fault

Hi,

At Thu, 14 Feb 2002 18:12:47 +0900,
nobu.nokada@softhome.net wrote:
> At Wed, 13 Feb 2002 13:56:51 -0700,
> Matt Armstrong <matt@lickey.com> wrote:
> > Should Ruby ever seg fault when it runs out of memory?  That is the
> > bug I'm most concerned about.
> 
> Perhaps, you didn't see [BUG]... message at the fault, it means
> real stack overflow and nothing can be done.  Operationg sysetm
> kills the program immediately.  It can be trapped with
> sigaltstack() under POSIX system, but no way to distinguish it
> from other SEGV.

# Sorry, forgot to write.

That is, I guess the stack couldn't expand more since virtual
memory limit exceeded.

-- 
Nobu Nakada