Are you referring to V8's developer shell (d8)? This has been fixed. The 
reason is that v8::String::Utf8Value hides exceptions thrown when 
evaluating the object's toString() method, e.g. stack overflow. This has 
now been fixed in d8 (http://code.google.com/p/v8/issues/detail?id=2317).

Yang


On Tuesday, September 4, 2012 11:43:58 AM UTC+2, marcel wrote:
>
> Hey I'm seeing an issue where v8 starts behaving oddly when my embedded JS 
> is reaching high stack space. I put together a simple example of this:
>
> https://gist.github.com/3619095
>
> When I run this the print() function calls start getting "(null)" for the 
> first parameter, but the correct value from "ii.toString()". I posted the 
> output of the executable on my system as a comment on the gist, but at some 
> point print() starts getting null before a throwing undefined shortly after:
>
> 0 0
> 1 1
> 2 2
> 3 3
> 4 4
> 5 5
> ...
> 15708 15708
> 15709 15709
> (null) 15710
> (null) 15711
> (null) 15712
> ...
> (null) 15737
> (null) 15738
> (null) 15739
> caught:
> undefined
>
> Where my print() call looks like this:
> print(ii, ii.toString());
>
> Is this behavior expected? I'm currently troubleshooting an issue in 
> node-fibers where I'm seeing segfaults at high stack space instead of the 
> expected RangeError and I'm concerned that these issues are related.
>
> On the other hand this is happening on bleeding_edge, as well as very old 
> versions (I tested 3.6.6.25 for instance).
>
> gcc version 4.5.3 both 32 and 64 bit; Linux 3.2.1
>

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