Mirror of the gdb-patches mailing list
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@mvista.com>
To: Don Howard <dhoward@redhat.com>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>,
	Michael Snyder <msnyder@redhat.com>,
	Hilfinger@cs.berkeley.edu, gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com
Subject: Re: [RFA] Avoid recursivly defined user functions.
Date: Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:05:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020409170456.A14389@nevyn.them.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0204091325540.25679-100000@theotherone.redhat-remotie.org>

On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 02:01:13PM -0700, Don Howard wrote:
> I think I can detect mutual recursion by walking through the body of each
> user-defined command (recursivly).  This amounts to static recursion 
> detection. 
> 
> I think I could track simple recursion depth at runtime.
> 
> I don't see how to track mutual recursion depth at runtime.  Maybe do the
> static recursion detection and recursivly flag user-defined commands in
> the body?

How about something even simpler - track user command depth at runtime? 
Set an absurd limit, like 1024 deep, if we can handle that in a
normal-sized stack limit.  Then complain if we hit it at runtime.

-- 
Daniel Jacobowitz                           Carnegie Mellon University
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer


  reply	other threads:[~2002-04-09 21:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-04-03 14:09 Don Howard
2002-04-03 14:36 ` Paul Hilfinger
2002-04-03 15:53   ` Michael Snyder
2002-04-04  3:17     ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-09 14:01       ` Don Howard
2002-04-09 14:05         ` Daniel Jacobowitz [this message]
2002-04-09 14:09           ` Paul Hilfinger
2002-04-09 14:18             ` Don Howard
2002-04-11 10:56               ` Don Howard
2002-04-11 12:08                 ` Daniel Jacobowitz
2002-04-11 12:41                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-11 13:55                 ` Michael Snyder
2002-04-12  4:08                 ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-12 11:28                   ` Michael Snyder
2002-04-12 12:07                     ` Fernando Nasser
2002-04-12 15:32                       ` Don Howard
2002-04-13  1:44                         ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-13  9:33                           ` Don Howard
2002-04-09 14:20         ` Andreas Schwab
2002-04-11 19:23 Eli Zaretskii
2002-04-13 10:04 Eli Zaretskii

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=20020409170456.A14389@nevyn.them.org \
    --to=drow@mvista.com \
    --cc=Hilfinger@cs.berkeley.edu \
    --cc=dhoward@redhat.com \
    --cc=gdb-patches@sources.redhat.com \
    --cc=msnyder@redhat.com \
    --cc=schwab@suse.de \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox