* Dave Mitchell via RT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005-01-29 16:40]: > I can't really see what else Perl can do. The segfault happens > when Perl extends the stack too far. This can't be avoided.
Isn't it possible to check before extending the stack whether there's room for the planned extension? > The SIGSEGV could be caught, but then there's nothing sensible > that perl could then do to retrieve the situation. As I said I don't think there is much that perl could do to salvage the running program; but if possible it should at least throw an error along the lines of "Deep recursion in regex in file foo.pl line 42" and, ideally, proceed to die in an orderly manner (global destruction and all that).
