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From: Frank Terbeck <ft@bewatermyfriend.org>
To: Russell Harmon <eatnumber1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Segmentation Fault on Stack Overflow
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Russell Harmon wrote:
> Is this a known issue? If not, I'll put more effort into getting a stack
> trace.
>
> % zsh --version
> zsh 5.0.2 (x86_64-apple-darwin13.0)
> % function inf() { inf }; inf
> zsh: correct 'inf' to 'info' [nyae]? n
> zsh: correct 'inf' to 'info' [nyae]? n
> [1]    11650 segmentation fault  zsh

This is caused by infinite recursion. More recent versions of the shell
will react more reasonably:

zsh% function inf() { inf }; inf
inf: maximum nested function level reached

Regards, Frank