From: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu.nokada@...>
Date: 2003-04-09T13:06:52+09:00
Subject: Re: The "!" and "?" characters.

Hi,

At Wed, 9 Apr 2003 07:56:15 +0900,
Chris Pine wrote:
> Still, why a segfault and not a stack overflow?

When stack really overflowed, OS kills the process immediately.
User program can do nothing at all.  Ruby tries to prevent it
but not perfect.

-- 
Nobu Nakada