Re: Catching stack overflow errors

[Anthony Green <green at cygnus dot com>]

"Earl S. Harris, Jr." <esharris@mitre.org> writes:
> I think this is important if the following conditions hold.
> 
> 1. A programmer wants to use non tail recursion in his/her C++ program.
> 2. He/she doesn't want the program to crash inelegantly.

It is also important for other languages supported by GCC.  Java
implementations are required to throw exceptions when a stack is blown
but gcj currently ignores this.

AG

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