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

[Chris McCormick]

On Thu, Dec 20, 2007 at 05:39:14PM +0000, Andy Farnell wrote:
> > but it would still run into those problems of finding an arbitrary
> > condition to trigger the 'halt'
> 
> Hmmmm, there's beard stroker. :)

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem>

"Alan Turing proved in 1936 that a general algorithm to solve the
halting problem for all possible program-input pairs cannot exist."

Best,

Chris.

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