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

[Jamie Bullock]

On Thu, 2007-12-20 at 16:14 -0500, Mathieu Bouchard wrote:

> This is still way too much, but it's too complicated to get pd to support 
> interrupting its own calculations unless all externals are compiled with 
> C++ exception support, and even then, it's tricky because you can't 
> directly add exception support to libc itself or whatever else.
> 
How do the ruby (irb) and python interactive interpreters handle this?
Both python's "while 1:" and ruby's "while(1)" can be safely interrupted
with ctrl-c with the interpreter still running. Would it be necessary to
implement the measures you suggest above in order to implement something
like this for Pd or dd - ctrl-c stops message processing?

Jamie

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