bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks

[Andreas Schwab]

On Jul 06 2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>> Cc: Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>,  27585@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:46:14 +0200
>> 
>> On Jul 05 2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 
>> > You wrote a program that triggers infinite recursion.
>> 
>> This isn't infinite recursion since the input is finite.
>
> If we want to be pedantically accurate, then no "infinite" recursion
> is ever truly infinite, since it will always stop when the system is
> shut down, or the power fails, or the world ends, whichever happens
> first.

This is not a useful way to categorize infinite recursion.  In this
case, the recursion is always bounded by the size of the input.

Andreas.

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