Re: Detecting endless recursion?

vbdis@aol.com (VBDis)
16 Jan 2004 23:03:42 -0500

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From: vbdis@aol.com (VBDis)
Newsgroups: comp.compilers
Date: 16 Jan 2004 23:03:42 -0500
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Posted-Date: 16 Jan 2004 23:03:42 EST

  Fergus Henderson <fjh@cs.mu.oz.au> schreibt:

>It depends a lot on your programming style. 100 nesting levels is too
>small for some programs. If you do have a fixed limit, make sure that
>it can be increased without recompiling the program (e.g. allow the
>user to set the limit from an environment variable or command-line
>option).

IMO it's preferrable to have the appropriate value in an configuration
file. For an interpreter a (pseudo) statement can be added to the
language, allowing to set the stack limit for every single program as
required.

DoDi

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