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From: Ludovic Brenta <ludovic@ludovic-brenta.org>
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Subject: Re: ada compiler?
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 07:09:14 -0800
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On Nov 14, 1:25 pm, Georg Bauhaus <rm.tsoh+bauh...@maps.futureapps.de>
wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-11-14 at 02:26 -0800, Ludovic Brenta wrote:
> >  Also, if a stack overflow results in
> > a SEGV (instead of Storage_Error), I don't clearly see the functional
> > difference i.e. the stack overflow gets caught either way.
>
> But who catches? A player in the game (Ada partition),
> or someone in the stadium (OS)?

But if the stack is exhausted or nearly so (perhaps because the last
in a long series of recursive calls raises Storage_Error), chances are
high that the exception handler itself will overflow the stack (e.g.
passing your string "Hey! You!" to a procedure might itself cause a
stack overflow). This, in my view, greatly reduces the benefit of the
exception. Also, what if raising the exception requires some stack
space? Maybe I should have said that explicitly.

--
Ludovic Brenta.