Re: Segmentation fault for large values of max-lisp-eval-depth

[Jesper Harder]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     For example, when I evaluate these expressions in the *scratch*
>     buffer Emacs crashes with a segmentation fault:
>
> max-lisp-eval-depth is the mechanism Emacs uses to avoid getting the
> segmentation fault ;-(.

Maybe the manual should mention that increasing it could make Emacs
crash.

The description in the manual gives the impression that it's just a
mechanism to detect and stop infinite recursion -- not that finite but
deeply nested recursion might cause a crash.

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Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>