Re: [q-lang-users] Bug?

[Albert G. <Dr....@t-...>]

John Cowan wrote:
> Chicken does it somehow; I've sent Felix an email asking him to
> explain it.

Thanks, that info would be most helpful.

> Then a garbage collector evicts
> any Scheme objects to the heap and longjmp()s back to start over,
> since all the C call frames are garbage.

I'm afraid that with Q it's not quite the same, as I'd actually have to
catch the C call stack overflow asap and generate a Q exception, and all
this has to be done without thrashing the C stack. But anything would be
better than just bailing out with a segfault...

Albert

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