On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Thomas Lumley wrote: > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, Prof Brian Ripley wrote: > > > On Mon, 24 Jan 2005, McGehee, Robert wrote: > > > > [Instructions to the R developers deleted.] > > > >> Secondly, the ?options help (thanks for everyone who reminded me about > >> this), says that expressions can have values between 25...100000. > >> > >> However, if the original example is set past 4995 on my computers, I > >> receive a stack overflow. > > > > More accurately, you caused a protection stack overflow. > > > > At one point we were concerned about overflowing the C stack if > options(expressions=) were set too high. I think this was in the days > when MacOS had a very small stack, and that things are safer now. > > > -thomas
I hadn't noticed that they finally kicked the default up to 8M--good. We still need to be a bit careful since running out of C stack will cause a protection violation and there is no portabmle way to catch this. But we can probably afford to loosen the defaults a bit. luke -- Luke Tierney University of Iowa Phone: 319-335-3386 Department of Statistics and Fax: 319-335-3017 Actuarial Science 241 Schaeffer Hall email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Iowa City, IA 52242 WWW: http://www.stat.uiowa.edu ______________________________________________ R-devel@stat.math.ethz.ch mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-devel
