Ster Chess <sterch...@gmail.com> writes: > I'm sorry if this has already been suggested as a bug, but I couldn't > find it in the bug tracker. If I create a simple recursive factorial > function, and choose huge values for it, Guile will happily do my > bidding and take all the system resources and my whole system becomes > unusable. This should never happen.
If you want to limit the stack size within Guile, see 'call-with-stack-overflow-handler', described here: https://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Stack-Overflow.html Mark