GNU bug report logs - #16999
calc crashes when computation limit is increased

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Florian Beck <fb <at> miszellen.de>

Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:56:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Done: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: jay.p.belanger <at> gmail.com, 16999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, Florian Beck <fb <at> miszellen.de>
Subject: bug#16999: calc crashes when computation limit is increased
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 09:42:20 -0400

> Perhaps there should be a kind of protection against this.

There is, in the form of max-specpdl-size and max-lisp-eval-depth.
If you bump them up too high, you're asking for trouble.


        Stefan
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