Hugs Crashes W2K

[Sigbjorn Finne]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "ion" <trigonometric@softhome.net>
To: <hugs-bugs@haskell.org>
Sent: Monday, October 07, 2002 11:46
Subject: Re: Hugs Crashes W2K


> I understand that this should produce the message:
> 
> ERROR: Control stack overflow
> 
> instead of just crashing, this is really annoying...
> 

That's dependent on platform. In your case (Win32),
the C/system stack is exhausted before Hugs' internal
evaluation stack.

I've just added some Win32 SEH code to the interpreter
to catch & gracefully recover from C stack overflows.
Upcoming release will have this included.


--sigbjorn