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

[Mathieu Bouchard]

On Wed, 19 Dec 2007, Chris McCormick wrote:

> The other somewhat dirty solution I thought of but I don't think I 
> posted here yet is to make [until] artificially use stack space up so 
> that it does eventually explode when stack is all used, in the same way 
> as other Pd infinite loops. That's kind of gross but it would work.

It won't do this unless you make it recurse using messages, because pd 
only counts how many stack messages are currently not finished, not how 
much stack space is used (since 0.38 or so).

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