Subject: Re: bug#27585: segfault when evaluating a file containing only backticks

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 19:19:40 +0300

> Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2017 08:52:44 -0700
> CC: [email-masked]
> From: Daniel Colascione <[email-masked]>
> 
> >Moreover, there are those among us (I'm not one of them) who thinks
> >Emacs shouldn't even try to recover from stack overflow, they say it
> >should crash hard right there and then.
> 
> Native stack? Certainly.

Yes, this discussion is about the native stack, not the ELisp stack.

> Recovering when elisp blows the stack is a different matter.

I believe we already do that.