AW: [Mono-list] Segmentation fault / StackOverflowException not thrown

[Simon Kitching]

Well, Sun's Java Virtual Machine on Linux manages to detect stack
overflow and throw an exception so it must be possible.


On Mon, 2003-07-14 at 22:51, Dietmar Maurer wrote:
> > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> > Von: Michael Levy [mailto:mlevy@wardium.homeip.net] 
> > Gesendet: Freitag, 11. Juli 2003 22:29
> > An: mono-list@lists.ximian.com
> > Betreff: [Mono-list] Segmentation fault / 
> > StackOverflowException not thrown
> > 
> > 
> > Hello,
> > 	I am fairly new to C# (and mono) but I think that I may 
> > have found a potential bug. I have attached a short peice of 
> > (silly) code which shows the problem. The code basically 
> > causes a method (or property, depending on what you have 
> > un-commented) to recursivly call itsel until it blows the 
> > stack. I would expect that this sort of pathological 
> > recursion should generate 
> > a StackoverflowException when executed, but it simpley causes 
> > a Segmentation fault. I have not been able to confirm this 
> > behaviour on Windows. I am using the lates release of mono (0.25).
> 
> The problem is that Unix has no real support to catch stack overflow, i.e.
> it is highly system specific. So we decided to do a Segmentation fault in
> that case.
> 
> Anyways, it should be possible to detect simple cases at compile time -  so
> the c# compiler could emit a warning in that case.
> 
> - Dietmar
>  
> 
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