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From: Paul Hilfinger <hilfingr@EECS.Berkeley.EDU>
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To: Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [RFA] Avoid recursivly defined user functions. 
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> Executing a recursively defined user function results in a core-dump from 
> gdb:

...

> The following patch catches recursive user function definitions and 
> disallowes them:

Is the segmentation fault the result of stack overflow?  If so, I
point out that there is an 'if' statement, so recursive commands are 
not necessarily wrong, are they?

P. Hilfinger