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calc crashes when computation limit is increased

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Message #23 received at 16999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Florian Beck <fb <at> miszellen.de>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>, 
 Dmitry Antipov <dmantipov <at> yandex.ru>
Cc: 16999 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#16999: calc crashes when computation limit is increased
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:12:02 +0100

On 13.03.2014 14:42, Stefan Monnier wrote:
>> 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.

Maybe calc shouldn't bump them too high, then.

Would I start calc, repetedly press "M" and then crash emacs – well, 
maybe I was asking for trouble. But I pressed M as suggested, then 
checked to docs, then again pressed M as suggested, then did something 
else, returned to calc, pressed M again as suggested, and so on...
-- 
Florian Beck

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