Re: [RFA] Avoid recursivly defined user functions.

Don Howard
2002-04-09T21:18:48Z

On Tue, 9 Apr 2002, Paul Hilfinger wrote:

>
> > 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.
>
> I completely agree with this. After all, if you were willing to
> contemplate outlawing recursion altogether, you certainly won't LOSE
> anything by Daniel's approach, and you gain everything you wanted in
> the first place---to avoid crashing GDB.
>
> Paul
>

I like this approach, also.

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