In article <3d615ba7@news.povray.org> , Micha Riser <mri### [at] gmxnet>  wrote:

> But this does not speak for a fixed limit on max_trace_level. You don't
> limit the number of objects either because with too many objects there will
> be not enough memory.
<snip>
> I do not see any different with that than
> running out of memory due to too many objects.

Your stack will grow into the heap and then there will most likely be a
crash.  This is something completely different from running out of memory
because of too many objects and getting a simple nice error message.

    Thorsten

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