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From: Jay Belanger <jay.p.belanger@gmail.com>
To: Florian Beck <fb@miszellen.de>
Cc: 16999@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#16999: calc crashes when computation limit is increased
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:44:15 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vbvjca0w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5320A7D9.3000802@miszellen.de>


> M-x calc
> 2n
> 0
> kc
>
> I.e. try to calculate the binomial coefficient of (-2 0).

This causes Calc to enter an infinite loop.  It needs to be fixed, but
the problem has been around for a while so it probably needs to wait
until after the release.

> Computation got stuck or ran too long.  Type `M' to increase the limit
>
> So do
>
> M
> kc
>
> and repeat a couple of times.
>
> Once `max-lisp-eval-depth' hits 64000 emacs crashes.

This seems to be an Emacs problem, rather than a problem specific to Calc.
Typing M doubles the sizes of `max-lisp-eval-depth' and
`max-specpdl-size'.  Having  `max-lisp-eval-depth' equal to 64000 by
itself doesn't seem to cause problems, but having `max-lisp-eval-depth'
equal to 64000 and `max-specpdl-size' equal to 83200 does cause Emacs to
crash on an infinite loop; evaluating:

  (setq max-specpdl-size 83200
        max-lisp-eval-depth 64000)

  (defun f ()
     (f))

  (f)

will crash Emacs.






  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-12 22:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-12 18:30 bug#16999: calc crashes when computation limit is increased Florian Beck
2014-03-12 22:44 ` Jay Belanger [this message]
2014-03-13  5:13   ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-03-13  9:11     ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-03-13 14:06       ` Florian Beck
2014-03-13 14:30         ` Dmitry Antipov
2014-03-13 16:56       ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-03-13 13:42     ` Stefan Monnier
2014-03-13 14:12       ` Florian Beck
2014-03-13 21:15         ` Jay Belanger
2014-03-13 22:10         ` Stefan Monnier
2020-09-09 12:19 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-10 16:02 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-11 10:29   ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-09-11 11:54   ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-14  9:45     ` Mattias Engdegård

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