Well, Sun's Java Virtual Machine on Linux manages to detect stack overflow and throw an exception so it must be possible.
On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 22:51, Dietmar Maurer wrote: > > -----Urspr�ngliche Nachricht----- > > Von: Michael Levy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 22:29 > > An: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Betreff: [Mono-list] Segmentation fault / > > StackOverflowException not thrown > > > > > > Hello, > > I am fairly new to C# (and mono) but I think that I may > > have found a potential bug. I have attached a short peice of > > (silly) code which shows the problem. The code basically > > causes a method (or property, depending on what you have > > un-commented) to recursivly call itsel until it blows the > > stack. I would expect that this sort of pathological > > recursion should generate > > a StackoverflowException when executed, but it simpley causes > > a Segmentation fault. I have not been able to confirm this > > behaviour on Windows. I am using the lates release of mono (0.25). > > The problem is that Unix has no real support to catch stack overflow, i.e. > it is highly system specific. So we decided to do a Segmentation fault in > that case. > > Anyways, it should be possible to detect simple cases at compile time - so > the c# compiler could emit a warning in that case. > > - Dietmar > > > _______________________________________________ > Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list > _______________________________________________ Mono-list maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/mono-list
