Re: a recursion bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/3/12 5:32 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Chet Ramey wrote:
>>> Pid 4466 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure.
>>> Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space,
>>> or stack size exceeded maxssiz.
>>
>> There's not actually anything you can do about that except use ulimit to
>> get as much stack space as you can.
> 
> Well...  There is the gnulib c-stack module:
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html
> 
>   c-stack     Stack overflow handling, causing program exit.

Which, at the end of the day, basically provides a way to print a message
and exit.  The message above is better than most.



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