Subject: [Ecls-list] segmentation fault with Maxima/ECL
From: Stavros Macrakis
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:05:37 -0400
On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 4:29 PM, Juan Jose Garcia-Ripoll <
juanjose.garciaripoll at googlemail.com> wrote:
> The problem is that there is no portable way of detecting a stack overflow
> ...
Infinite recursions are a common bug in Lisp programs, and Lisp is usually
used interactively, so Lisp implementations that can't detect stack overflow
and recover gracefully are pretty much useless. I would recommend that you
find a way to detect stack overflow, even if there is no portable solution,
and you have to write different code on different platforms.
-s