From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
To: Zoltan Hidvegi <hzoli@cs.elte.hu>
Cc: rft@cg.tuwien.ac.at, zsh-workers@math.gatech.edu
Subject: Re: local variable setting problem/bug
Date: 20 Nov 1996 20:32:46 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <kigu3qksgtd.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Zoltan Hidvegi's message of Wed, 20 Nov 1996 16:33:36 +0100 (MET)
Zoltan Hidvegi (hzoli@cs.elte.hu) wrote:
> Hrvoje Niksic wrote:
> > Couldn't zsh check its recursion depth? It shouldn't be too hard to
> > implement, and would be a win in these cases.
>
> That was already discussed some time ago. The problem is that one may want
> to use recursive functions on purpose and an artificial limit is
> undesirable here.
Of course. But the artificial limit can be set quite high, so that it
server _only_ to prevent core dumps. E.g. XEmacs has max-specpdl-size
set to 3000. I suppose it could be easy to add an ulimit-like
mechanism to control this value.
What do you think of that?
--
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
`VI' - An editor used by those heretics that don't subscribe to
the Emacs religion.
prev parent reply other threads:[~1996-11-20 19:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-11-19 21:31 Robert F Tobler
1996-11-20 1:41 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-11-20 2:02 ` Hrvoje Niksic
1996-11-20 15:33 ` Zoltan Hidvegi
1996-11-20 19:32 ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
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