In article <3d62164d@news.povray.org> , Micha Riser <mri### [at] gmxnet>  wrote:

> I just wanted to point out that the differences between a stack-overflow
> and a memory allocation failure does not seem to be so big to me.

Well, that then depends on the runtime libarary and OS.  A good memory
allocator checks to see if the heap is coming to close to the stack and
fails (easy assuming one knows where the application stack pointer is).  But
apparently that is not everywhere so :-(

    Thorsten

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