On Aug 1, 2012, at 1:59 PM, Jim Ursetto wrote:

> On Aug 1, 2012, at 7:07 AM, Felix wrote:
> 
>> Enabling this mode by default should IMHO be avoided, since runaway
>> recursions (which is the usual reason for stack-exhaustion) will
>> consume all available memory and thus may bring the machine to a halt.
> 
> I think it will hit the stack ulimit (probably 4-8MB) and segfault,
> so there is no danger of exhaustion.

Never mind, ignore this post, I am an idiot.  That's how it behaves
now obviously, deep-stack will remove this "safety valve".

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