[PD] What exactly is a "stack overflow" ?

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Thu, 20 Dec 2007, Frank Barknecht wrote:

> as an abstraction called: [funtil] It will bang 1000000000000 times 
> unless stopped, which is more bangs for the bang than most people would 
> want.

no, 1000000000000 as a float is non-representable and will be 
rounded to the closest number within float32, which is 999999995904. Then 
it will cause an overflow, which will transform the value to -727384064, 
which will cause 3567583232 iterations.

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