Re: [Caml-list] stack overflow

[Yang Shouxun <yangsx@fltrp.com>]

On Wednesday 09 April 2003 10:19, brogoff@speakeasy.net wrote:
> The most likely explanation is that you created a very large list, say of
> length over 50_000, and tried to apply some non-tail-recursive operation to
> it, perhaps even implicitly. There was a very recent thread on this topic.
>
> The second explanation is that you wrote some (non-tail) recursive function
> and it blew the stack.

Yes, the decision tree building function is not tail recursive. I heared 
people saying C4.5 (in C) also has stack overflow problem when the training 
dataset becomes very large.

I don't know how to write a tail recursive version to build trees.  If there 
are not that many continuous attributes and the dataset is not so large, the 
tree stops growing before stack overflow.

Can one know the maximal number of calls before it overflow the stack?

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