On Mon, Jan 30, 2012 at 9:18 PM, S Krish <krishnamachari.sudhakar@gmail.com> wrote:

In general why is there not a catch all for Stack Overflow and infinite loops.

There is, low space (and user interrupt for flat infinite loops). �But the low space interrupt machinery is easily broken. �It is difficult to test, and an increasingly silly approach on modern machines with huge amounts of memory. �We need to think again.