[Octave-bug-tracker] [bug #51214] recursive function fails at modest recursion depths, causes segmentation fault

[Mike Miller]

Update of bug #51214 (project octave):

                Category:    Octave Forge Package => Interpreter            
                 Summary: [octave forge] (statistics) linkage function fails
at modest recursion depths => recursive function fails at modest recursion
depths, causes segmentation fault

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Follow-up Comment #4:

Thanks, that's what I was reading into this report as well.

Octave's "soft landing" is the maximum recursion depth. When you intentionally
increase the maximum recursion depth, you are taking the safety off and may
cause Octave to crash, as shown here.

We do not have a way to recover gracefully from a stack recursion overflow,
which is why we have the maximum recursion limit check in place.

As a first easy step, what I would do is add warnings to the documentation of
max_recursion_depth that increasing the limit is dangerous and may cause
Octave to crash, and also add a warning when the user actually calls the
function to increase the current limit.

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