From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : `max-specpdl-size' and `max-lisp-eval-depth' Date: Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:09:12 +0200 Message-ID: <87a6k0ugev.fsf@zoho.eu> References: Reply-To: Emanuel Berg Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="3376"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:BkWcA93X6EQAG1h7GK2grRYH6mk= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 26 06:10:36 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mULUp-0000f1-NI for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:10:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59316 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mULUn-0001ic-Sn for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:10:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:49696) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mULTj-0001iQ-Vz for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:37710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mULTe-0007GU-IZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2021 00:09:27 -0400 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mULTc-0009ox-Tr for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 26 Sep 2021 06:09:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Mail-Followup-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Mail-Copies-To: never Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, T_SPF_TEMPERROR=0.01 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:133246 Archived-At: Drew Adams wrote: >> I noticed the following messages triggered frequently by >> Emacs: >> >> File mode specification error: (error Variable binding >> depth exceeds max-specpdl-size) Emacs: nesting exceeds >> `max-lisp-eval-depth' >> >> Any hints/suggestions or rule of thumb to set >> these variables? > > You generally shouldn't need to change them. You're likely > coding an infinite recursion, so the stack overflows. > Check your code - or narrow the problem down to some bit of > code and post it here, if you can't see how/why you've cause > an infinite recursion. Or google "recursion"... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal