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Received: by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Fri, 15 Sep 1995 10:11:28 MST
To: icon-group@cs.arizona.edu
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 1995 11:13:23 GMT
From: seldon@eskimo.com (Will Mengarini)
Message-Id: <DEw76C.3Au@eskimo.com>
Organization: Eskimo North (206) For-Ever
Sender: icon-group-request@cs.arizona.edu
References: <EfkVwkFhmbCP084yn@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: evaluation stack overflow
Errors-To: icon-group-errors@cs.arizona.edu
godfroy@ibm.net (Pedro Godfroid Goffin) writes:
> Well, I get this "evaluation stack overflow" message while running
>a recursive Icon program (OS/2, 8.1 version). I've tried to fix it
>changing the MSTKSIZE to greater values but I still got the same
>error message. Are there any other environment variables that can
>be changed to try to fix the problem (I have 16 megas of memory and
>can allocate a bigger OS/2 swapfile if necessary).
This kind of thing is almost always caused by infinite recursion,
not inadequate memory. Since Icon syntax is subtle, it's quite
likely you're infinitely recursing with a construct that would
work as you intended in an Algol-family language.
I suggest you post the code.