Your OS should be protecting you from this. You could try manually setting a memory limit on dmd:
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44985/limit-memory-usage-for-a-single-linux-process On Sun, Feb 28, 2016 at 6:08 AM, Lass Safin via dmd-internals <[email protected]> wrote: > Currently, when a function which has an infinite loop gets run at > compile-time, dmd keeps acquiring more and more resources, eventually > leading to X11 (I uss Linux) freezing and me having to force-close it and > then restart it. > > A solution to this problem is needed. It's simply ridiculous that I have to > restart X11 anytime I make such a mistake. Perhaps something like a limit to > the number of iterations needs to be implemented? > > Example of unterminated loop in ctfe: > int func() { > while(true) {} > return 2; > } > > template t() { > enum int i = func; > } > > Thoughts? > _______________________________________________ > dmd-internals mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals _______________________________________________ dmd-internals mailing list [email protected] http://lists.puremagic.com/mailman/listinfo/dmd-internals
