From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: steve@steve.org.uk, 27585@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 17:31:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mvmpoddeg4o.fsf@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83mv8hmw3x.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Thu, 06 Jul 2017 18:19:14 +0300")
On Jul 06 2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
>> Cc: Steve Kemp <steve@steve.org.uk>, 27585@debbugs.gnu.org
>> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:46:14 +0200
>>
>> On Jul 05 2017, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>>
>> > You wrote a program that triggers infinite recursion.
>>
>> This isn't infinite recursion since the input is finite.
>
> If we want to be pedantically accurate, then no "infinite" recursion
> is ever truly infinite, since it will always stop when the system is
> shut down, or the power fails, or the world ends, whichever happens
> first.
This is not a useful way to categorize infinite recursion. In this
case, the recursion is always bounded by the size of the input.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-07-06 15:31 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-07-05 6:21 bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks Steve Kemp
2017-07-05 7:51 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-05 8:26 ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-05 18:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-05 18:55 ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-05 19:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 3:46 ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-06 15:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:33 ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-06 16:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 6:46 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-06 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:31 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2017-07-06 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:41 ` Andreas Schwab
2017-07-06 15:52 ` Daniel Colascione
2017-07-06 16:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 16:37 ` Daniel Colascione
2017-07-06 17:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-06 15:48 ` Daniel Colascione
2017-07-14 12:09 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-14 13:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-07-15 5:03 ` Steve Kemp
2017-07-15 5:12 ` Paul Eggert
2017-07-15 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
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