On 6/29/2011 20:40, clipka wrote:
> ... which does not prevent you from failure due to hitting the memory limit.

Of course.  I wasn't trying to imply there might not be a recursion limit. 
Of course anything that allocates memory might fail, and a function call 
that's going to allocate a large chunk of memory for a parameter could fail.

> In that case it either can't have placed all local variables at fixed
> addresses, or must have placed a hard limit on recursions.

I honestly don't remember. I remember I had to switch to a C compiler 
because I didn't have enough memory for all local variables at once.

> Either way, there /always/ is a limit on recursion depth, and AFAIK
> determining at compile-time whether an arbitrary program ever hits that
> depth is as hard as solving the halting problem.

Right.  Sorry if what I wrote implied I thought that wasn't the case.

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    driving without turn signals."

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