Re: a recursion bug

[Chet Ramey]

On 10/3/12 3:40 PM, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 03, 2012 at 01:23:58PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote:
>> But in any case, is there
>> anything in there that is about bash?  If so the we need an exact test
>> case.
> 
> You could start with this one:
> 
> imadev:~$ bash-4.2.28 -c 'a() { echo "$1"; a $(($1+1)); }; a 1' 2>&1 | tail   
>   
> Pid 4466 received a SIGSEGV for stack growth failure.
> Possible causes: insufficient memory or swap space,
> or stack size exceeded maxssiz.

There's not actually anything you can do about that except use ulimit to
get as much stack space as you can.

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