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

[Paul Eggert]

[Sending this again since the bug was archived and read-only earlier today.]

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Subject: Re: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only 
backticks
Date: Sun, 24 Sep 2017 11:32:44 -0700
From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>

Philipp Stephani wrote:
> Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> schrieb am Fr., 14. Juli 2017 um 14:10 Uhr:
>
> > As Eli and Daniel mentioned, this area of Emacs cannot be 100% reliable
>
> Why? Surely Emacs could switch away from recursion for the reader and the
> evaluator to an explicitly-managed stack. That would be a bit of work, but
> certainly not impossible.

You are right, on both points. By "this area of Emacs" I was assuming the 
current recursive implementation. It's not the only place Emacs recurses, though.